AAR 2019 Program Book PDF

PROGRAM SESSIONS
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21 P22-101
North American Association for the Study of Religion
P21-400 Executive Council Meeting
Friday, 8:30 AM–9:45 AM
Adventist Society for Religious Studies Reception and Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level)
Registration
Thursday, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400 (Fourth Level)
Adventist Society for Religious Studies welcomes its members for
the Reception hosted by Loma Linda University School of Religion. A22-100
Registration will run parallel to the Reception. Online registration is
open prior to the annual event. Public Understanding of Religion Committee Meeting
Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
P21-500 Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Presidential Address: Dr. Denis Fortin
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Thursday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410 (Fourth Level) Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and
Panelist: Queer Persons in the Profession Committee Meeting
Denis Fortin, Andrews University Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Omni-Balboa 1 (Fifth Level)
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, Presiding
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Adventist Society for Religious Studies, Business Session I A22-102
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410 (Fourth Level) Teaching and Learning Committee Meeting
Hilton Bayfront-AAR Suite
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, Presiding
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Adventist Society for Religious Studies Polanyi Society
Theme: Paper Session I: History and Methods Theme: Polanyian Investigations
Friday, 8:00 AM–10:00 AM Friday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level) Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400B (Fourth Level)
Katrina Blue, Pacific Union College Walter B. Gulick, Montana State University, Billings, Presiding
Closing the Door: The Fundamentalist Narrative and Its Impact on Martin Turkis II, University of Navarro
Adventism Searching for Teleological Origins: Correlating the Material and the
Gilbert Valentine, LaSierra University Immaterial
Exiting the General Conference Presidency: Orthodoxy, Heterodoxy Tim Simpson, Morehead State University, and Jon Fennell,
and Issues of Unity Hillsdale University
Theodore N. Levterov, Loma Linda University A Polanyian Rationale for the Liberal Arts Core Curriculum
“Going Back to the Future”: Re-discovering Ellen White’s Prophetic
Inspiration after the 1919 Bible Conference
Michael W. Campbell, Southwestern Adventist University
The Haunting of Adventism: Ghosts from the 1919 Bible
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 A22-106
International Connections Committee Meeting
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
P22-103 Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM

Marriott Marquis-Malibu (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400A (Fourth Level)
A22-107
A22-103 Regional Coordinators Meeting
Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Marriott Marquis-Newport Beach (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Committee Meeting
Katherine Downey, Dallas, TX, Presiding
Omni-Boardroom 2 (Sixth Level)
Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding A22-108
Academic Relations Committee Meeting
A22-104 Friday, 9:00 AM–5:00 PM
Marriott Marquis-Dana Point (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Status of Women in the Profession Committee Meeting
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
Omni-Boardroom 1 (Sixth Level)
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside, Presiding A22-109 ZPWK
Public Scholarship and Practical Impacts Workshop
A22-105 Theme: Media Training and Work Outside the Academy
Women’s Caucus
Convention Center-27A (Upper Level East)
Theme: 1000 Women in Religion: Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
Panelists:
Convention Center-14A (Mezzanine Level)
Reza Aslan, University of California, Riverside
Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery, Presiding
Kelly J. Baker, Women in Higher Education
Panelists:
Andrew Henry, Boston University
May May Latt, American Theological Library Association
(ATLA) See page 71 for details.
Rosalind F. Hinton, LAOUTLOUD
Deborah Fulthorp, SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary
Mary Hamlen, Harvard University
A22-110 (=S22-102a) ZK
THATCamp - The Humanities and Technology Camp
Mary Ellen Chown, Catholic Network for Women’s Equality
Alicia Panganiban, Mayo Clinic
Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College
Constance Kassor, Lawrence University, Candace Mixon, Macalester
Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University College, Adam Porter, Illinois College, and Younus Mirza,
See page 71 for details. Shenandoah University, Presiding
See page 71 for details.
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A Books Under Discussion Sustainability and Religion
C Business Meeting U Focus on Chaplainey W Presidential Theme: Scholarly

Workers in Public Spaces Q Tours
F Especially for Students P Focus on Employment K Professional Development D Wildcard Sessions
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Sound and Religion Religion and Media Workshop
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Friday, 9:00 AM–6:00 PM Theme: Techno-Utopias
Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East) Friday, 11:00 AM–6:00 PM
Panelists: Convention Center-6E (Upper Level West)
Amy Cimini, University of California, San Diego Beth Singler, University of Cambridge, Presiding
Anandi Knuppel, Emory University Panelist:
Francis Stewart, Bishop Grosseteste University Juli Gittinger, Georgia College and State University
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University See page 71 for details.
Finnian Moore Gerety, Brown University
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Chicano Park Tour
P22-104 Friday, 12:00 PM–3:00 PM
Adventist Society for Religious Studies, Business Session II Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G)
Friday, 10:00 AM–10:30 AM See page 9 for details.
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level)
P22-200
P22-106 Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Board Meeting
North American Association for the Study of Religion Friday, 12:00 PM–3:30 PM
Theme: Teaching the Field Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Friday, 10:00 AM–11:50 AM
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Panelist:
Leslie Dorrough Smith, Avila University Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
Responding: Religion
Rita M. Lester, Nebraska Wesleyan University Theme: Teaching with Film for Social Change Learning
Friday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM
Ian Cuthbertson, Dawson College
Convention Center-22 (Upper Level East)
Leonie Geiger, University of Bonn
This workshop will begin with lunch and will be followed by a
Martha Smith Roberts, Denison University presentation from Odyssey Impact about Odyssey documentary films
for community engagement and social change learning. Odyssey
Impact team members will share lessons learned from their impact
P22-107 campaigns. Invited faculty presenters will discuss issues of social
change learning and teaching strategies in the classroom.
Adventist Society for Religious Studies
The focus: Participants will engage questions about how to tackle
Paper Sesssion II: Theology and Hermeneutics
issues such as: student resistance, sensitive content, and social change
Friday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM learning dynamics and issues in the classroom. Additional questions
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level) will involve how does social change learning happen – during a film
Charles Scriven, Gilbert, Arizona and after? What creates action and/or transformed perspective?
Facing Finitude: Barthian Light on Adventism’s Long Struggle with How is it measured? When does it fail? What teaching strategies are
the Humanity of Inspired Writers most effective?
John W. Webster, La Sierra University Divinity School Panelists:
“Bombshells in the Playground”: 1919 Paradigm Shifts on Anne Faustin-Davis, Odyssey Impact
Hermeneutics Kirsten Kelly, Odyssey Impact
Matthew J. Korpman, Yale University Storm Swain, United Lutheran Seminary
Antiochus Epiphanes in 1919: Ellen White, Daniel, and the Books of Ralph Basui Watkins, Columbia Theological Seminary
Maccabees
Pre-registration required.
Jeffrey Gang, Loma Linda University
Apocalypse When? Seventh-day Adventist Eschatological Pessimism in Limit 50 participants. Active teaching faculty are encouraged to pre-
the Aftermath of World War I register.
Contact: Beth Reffett, reffettb@wabash.edu
John Shaver, University of Otago
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Religion, Fertility, and Child Outcomes: Tests of Functional
Hypotheses with the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and
Children
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
A22-114 Joseph Bulbulia, University of Aukland

Belief and Unbelief over the Lifespan: Surprising Findings from a
Theological Education Workshop National Longitudinal Study
Theme: Science and Religion: A Pedagogical Workshop at Scripps
Oceanographic Institute
Friday, 12:30 PM–5:30 PM A22-200
Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G) American Lectures in the History of Religions Committee
See page 72 for details. Meeting
A22-115 ZK Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire Boardroom (Fourth Level)
Duncan Williams, University of Southern California, Presiding
Anti-Islamophobia Workshop
Theme: Teaching Against Islamophobia (By Invitation Only)
Friday, 12:30 PM–6:00 PM A22-201
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level) Graduate Student Committee
Todd Green, Luther College, Juliane Hammer, University of North Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Carolina, and Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco, Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level)
Presiding
Rachel Toombs, Baylor University, Presiding
P22-206
P22-202 Thomas F. Torrance Theological Fellowship
North American Association for the Study of Religion Theme: A Symposium: T. F. Torrance on Theosis and Universal
Salvation
Theme: History of the Field
Hilton Bayfront-206 (Second Level)
A short business meeting for members of 30 minutes will precede the
Panelist: symposium.
Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester Oliver Crisp, University of St. Andrews
Responding: T. F. Torrance on Theosis and Universal Salvation
James Edmonds, Arizona State University Responding:
D. Jamil Grimes, Louisville Seminary Myk Habets, Laidlaw College
Andrew Durdin, Florida State University See www.tftorrance.org for more details.
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University
P22-205
A22-202 ZWK
Becoming a Public Scholar Workshop
International Association for the Cognitive Science of Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Religion Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Theme: Recent Insights from Evolutionary Religious Studies See page 72 for details.
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level)
Connor Wood, Center for Mind and Culture, Cambridge, MA
Ritual and Self-Regulation in Complex Social Systems
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Comparative Hagiology Workshop Women’s Caucus
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Theme: Prospects for Future Research Theme: Weaving Public Spaces: Extending Scholarship on Gender
Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM and Religion
Convention Center-6F (Upper Level West) Friday, 2:00 PM–3:45 PM
Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University, Presiding Convention Center-14A (Mezzanine Level)
Panelist: Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Felice Lifshitz, University of Alberta Panelist:
See page 72 for details. Alicia Panganiban, Mayo Clinic
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Ethnography and Theology Workshop Centers on Religion and Public Life Workshop
Theme: Representation and Normativity: Crises and Possibilities Theme: Sharing Insights and Practice
Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM
Convention Center-6B (Upper Level West) Convention Center-6A (Upper Level West)
Theodore Hickman-Maynard, Boston University, and Natalie Wigg- See page 72 for details.
Stevenson, Emmanuel College, Presiding
Panelists:
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Sabrina Müller, University of Zurich
Clare Watkins, University of Roehampton International Bonhoeffer Society Board of Directors
Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame
Meeting
Derrick Lemons, University of Georgia
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 313 (Third Level)
Kristina Helgesson Kjellin, Church of Sweden, Uppsala
University
James Bielo, Miami University
Angela Cowser, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
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Buddhist Contemplation Workshop
Irma Fast Dueck, Canadian Mennonite University
Theme: Teaching Buddhist Contemplation in Higher Education
Katharine Lassiter, Mount Saint Joseph University
Convention Center-7A (Upper Level West)
Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga University, Presiding
P22-209 Panelists:
Adventist Society for Religious Studies Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga University
Theme: Paper Session III: Ethics and Mission Namdrol Miranda Adams, Maitripa College
Friday, 1:45 PM–3:45 PM Jane Compson, University of Washington, Tacoma
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level) Amelia Hall, Naropa University
Business Session will follow. Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Aleksandar Santrac, Washington Adventist University See page 73 for details.
The Bankruptcy of Christian Fundamentalism’s Rule-Based Morality:
Case Study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics
Cristian Dumitrescu, Adventist International Institute of
Advanced Studies
Fundamentalism and Mission: The Seventh-day Adventist Case
Tihomir Lazic, Newbold College
Adventist Quest for Truth: A New Methodological Opportunity
Michel Sunhae Lee, University of Texas
Looking Westward, Narrating Eastward
For further information on this event, including reservations for the
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 free shuttle, and our evening events (the Society dinner and the evening
reception, both subsidized for SSCS members), please visit sscs.press.
jhu.edu/annual_meeting/annual_meeting.html; please send additional
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
questions to Anita Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.

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Panelists:
Religion and Ecology Workshop Rebecca Laird, Point Loma Nazarene University
Theme: Cosmology and Ecology Andrew Lee, Graduate Theological Union
Friday, 2:30 PM–5:30 PM Shannon McAlister, Fordham University
Convention Center-7B (Upper Level West) 5:30 PM Return to Convention Area
Panelists: All are Welcome!
Mary Evelyn Tucker, Yale University
John A. Grim, Yale University
Nancy Maryboy, Indigenous Education Institute A22-300 ZW
Carl Anthony, Breakthrough Communities Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Brian Swimme, California Institute of Integral Studies Theme: FREE Workshop on Public-Facing Scholarship in
Responding: Religions, Medicines, and Healing
Sam Mickey, University of San Francisco Friday, 3:00 PM–5:00 PM
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311 (Third Level)
See page 73 for details. Emily Wu, Dominican University of California, and C. Pierce
Salguero, Penn State University, Presiding
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Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality P22-316
Theme: A Contemplative Experience of the Oceanside
Environment North American Association for the Study of Religion
Friday, 2:30 PM–6:00 PM Theme: The Role and Influence of Private Funding on the Field
Offsite - Point Loma Nazarene University, 3900 Lomaland Dr Friday, 3:00 PM–4:50 PM
Douglas Hardy, Nazarene Theological Seminary, Presiding Convention Center-25A (Upper Level East)
2:30 PM Departure from Convention Center (Please check SSCS Panelist:
website to confirm details.) Gregory D. Alles, McDaniel College
3:00 PM Welcome, Conversation, and Contemplative Tour of the Responding:
Campus Joshua Patterson, University of Georgia
Rev. Dr. Rebecca Laird, Professor of Christian Ministry and Practice, Michael Altman, University of Alabama
will lead a contemplative tour of the beautiful campus of Point
Loma Nazarene University, exploring its religious history and, with John McCormack, Aurora University
the collaboration of the University’s faculty in Biology, its natural Natalie Avalos, University of Colorado
environment. The afternoon, graciously hosted by the School of
Theology and Ministry, will include time for both conversation
and individual reflection. A meeting room will be available for
those who prefer not to walk. Light refreshments will be provided.
The University is a short cab ride from the Convention area, and
participants are welcome to join the session late.
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Maria Roberta Cappellini, CIRPIT Centro Interculturale
P22-317 C Raimon Panikkar Italia
Practical Suggestions from the Contemporary Western Philosophical
Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy Perspective on Climate Change
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Theme: Coming Together Over the Ganges: Raimon Panikkar Andrew Thrasher, Birmingham University
Symposium-Gerry Larson Memorial Practical Suggestions from the Contemporary Western Christian
Friday, 3:00 PM–7:00 PM Cosmology of Creation on Climate Change
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level) 4:50 PM–5:00 PM Break
Young-chan Ro, George Mason University, and Michiko Yusa, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM Part II: Remembering Gerry Larson
Western Washington University, Presiding Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University
The 2019 SACP panel, to be held in conjunction with the annual Gerry and Raimundo: Remembering Gerry Larson
meeting of the AAR in San Diego, will combine the Raimon
Panikkar Symposium and the memorial tribute to Gerry Larson, Milena Carrera, Vivarium
who was the past President of the SACP, 1982–85. Besides, many Prof. Larson and Panikkar at UCSB, Some Letter Exchanges
members of the Panikkar Symposium were Gerry Larson’s friends and Lara Mitias, Antioch College
colleagues. Dualisms East and West: Resolving Cartesian Problems with the
In the second half of the panel, we honor and remember our dear Insights of Samkhya-Yoga
colleague, Gerald Larson, who passed in April of this year. It will Geoffrey Ashton, University of San Francisco
begin with the presentation of some personal letters exchanged Recuperating the Life of Nature in the 6ƘΥNK\D Kārikā: A
Raimon Panikkar and Gerald Larson over the years. Next, the panel Reconsideration of Gerald Larson’s Theory of 3UDNΩWL through the Lens
will feature two scholarly papers on 6ƘԲNK\D and Yoga to pay tribute of Goethe’s Organics
to Gerry’s lasting academic contribution.
6:15 PM–6:20 PM Short announcement (5 minutes)
The session will conclude as we engage in floor discussion and initiate
6:20 PM–6:30 PM Break
the actual work of compiling the “sutras on climate change.” We will
have a short business meeting to finish off this year’s meeting. 6:30 PM–6:50 PM Part III: Reflections: Scholarly Responsibility in
Addressing Climate Change
Program
Floor discussion and drafting of Intrareligious, intercultural responses
3:00 PM Opening Welcome
in “sutra-form”—the purpose of this exercise is to summarize what we
3:05 PM–4:50 PM Part I: Ecosophy (Raimon Panikkar’s Cosmo-The- may learn from diverse religious-philosophical traditions. We will take
Anthropic Worldview): Practical Suggestions from the Religious Panikkar’s “Nine Sutras on Peace” as a model.
Traditions on Climate Change
6:50 PM–7:00 PM North American Panikkar Group Business
In the Panikkar Symposium we will address the urgent issue of Meeting:
climate change, and how various religious and philosophical traditions
Young-chan Ro, George Mason University, and Peter C. Phan,
respond to the present-day crisis and what insight, solutions, and
Georgetown University, Presiding
actions they may suggest. The aim of this session is to compile the
“sutras on climate change”—something similar to the “Nine Sutras on
Peace” (in Panikkar, Cultural Disarmament: The Way to Peace, 1995).
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as the sutras may guide us to practical insight, leading to action. Adventist Society for Religious Studies Sectional Meetings
When completed, we hope to upload the “Sutras on Climate Change”
on the SACP website (and other possible sites), so that they may Friday, 3:45 PM–4:45 PM
be available to the colleagues who are engaged in Intercultural and Hilton Bayfront-Indigo D (Second Level)
interdisciplinary philosophical endeavor. Christian Theology and History
Abdulaziz Sachedina, George Mason University New Testament
Practical Suggestions from Islam on Climate Change
Old Testament
Michiko Yusa, Western Washington University
Philosophy and Ethics
Practical Suggestions from Zen Buddhism and Nishida on Climate
Change Practical Theology
Young-chan Ro, George Mason University World Religions/Missiology
Practical Suggestions from Confucianism on Climate Change Michelet William, Andrews University
Fred Dallmayr, University of Notre Dame The Social Gospel Movement and Adventism in Late Nineteenth to
Practical Suggestions from Hinduism on Climate Change Early Twentieth Century in the United States
Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University
Practical Suggestions from Asian Christianity on Climate Change:
Pope Francis’ Encyclical and Asian Catholic Churches
Diane Pendola, Skyline, California, and Yakshi Vadeboncoeur,
Skyline, California
Praxis: Panikkarian Earth Liturgy
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William James Society Talk
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22

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Société Internationale d’Études sur Alfred Loisy P22-324
Theme: Working Papers on RC Modernism Karl Barth Society of North America Lectures
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level) Marriott Marquis-Coronado (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Annelies Lannoy, Ghent University George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Magic, Science and Religion. Alfred Loisy’s Quest for the Origin of
Religion Han-luen Kantzer Komline, Western Theological Seminary
Barth and Augustine
Luc Brogly, Independent Scholar
Writing on Controversial Topics during the Modernist Crisis: The Shao Kai Tseng, Zhejiang University
Case of L’Eucharistie by Pierre Batiffol Barth and Actualistic Ontology
Charles J. T. Talar, University of St. Thomas
At the Intersection of Science, Philosophy, and Religion: The Philosophy P22-323
of Ėdouard Le Roy
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies
Theme: Buddhist and Christian Resources for Addressing Sexual
P22-321 Violence
Polanyi Society Friday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Theme: Polanyi’s Imaginaries Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 307 (Third Level)
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Leo Lefebure, Georgetown University, Presiding
Marriott Marquis-Vista (South Tower - First Level) Buddhist and Christian communities have faced serious challenges
regarding sexual misconduct in recent years. This session will discuss
Phil Mullins, Missouri Western State University, Presiding various aspects of these situations and will explore resources from the
Jean Bocharova, Mount San Jacinto College Buddhist and Christian traditions for responding constructively.
Enchanting or Bewitching: The Role of Rhetoric in the Formation of Panelists:
an Imaginary
John Sheveland, Gonzaga University
Andrew Grosso, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, Columbia, SC
“Visionary Art” and the Rehabilitation of Modern Imaginaries Amy P. Langenberg, Eckerd College
Richard W. Moodey, Gannon University Laura Schmidt Roberts, Fresno Pacific University
Polanyi’s Imaginaries and Pictures Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Notre Dame of Maryland University
Responding: Cristina Lledo Gomez, Charles Sturt University
Charles Lowney, Hollins University Pamela Yetunde, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Jon Fennell, Hillsdale University
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Adventist Society for Religious Studies Meetings
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo H (Second Level)
Special Group Meetings:
Black Theology Group
Women in Theology Group
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Religious Literacy College-Wide Guidelines Project Mindfulness Workshop for Educators
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 500 (Fifth Level) Convention Center-26A (Upper Level East)
Diane L. Moore, Harvard University, and Eugene V. Gallagher, Trung Huynh, University of Houston, Presiding
Connecticut College, Presiding See page 73 for details.
Panelists:
Brian K. Pennington, Elon University
Cherie Hughes, Tulsa Community College
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Eugene Y. Lowe, Northwestern University Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Margaret Lowe, Bridgewater State University Theme: The State of Systematic Theology
Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa Friday, 6:00 PM–8:30 PM
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Nadine S. Pence, Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Junius Johnson, Baylor University, Presiding
Theology and Religion What is the current state of the discipline of systematic theology?
Grant Potts, Austin Community College What obstacles and opportunities do we face as we continue to
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of the West reflect on Christian theology in our present cultural moment? The
Christian Systematic Theology Unit of the AAR invites you to join
Joseph A. Favazza, Saint Anselm College us for a discussion of these questions followed by a reception with the
Joseph Laycock, Texas State University panelists. The event is free, but RSVP is required. Please RSVP by
Kenneth Mello, Southwestern University November 1 at eventbrite.com/e/the-state-of-systematic-theology-panel-
tickets-58381297031.
Reuven Firestone, Hebrew Union College
Sponsored with the generous support of Wipf and Stock Publishers,
Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University Baylor University Press, and the Episcopal Church at William and
Richard Ekman, Council of Independent Colleges Mary
Panelists:
William T. Cavanaugh, DePaul University
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Sarah Coakley, University of Cambridge
Journal of the American Academy of Religion ( JAAR) Editorial Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University
Board Meeting Christoph Schwoebel, University of St. Andrews
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, P22-403
Presiding
Søren Kierkegaard Society Annual Banquet
A22-401 L Offsite - The Prado, 1549 El Prado, Balboa Park, Alhambra Room,
Second Floor
Film: Tel Aviv on Fire: Peacebuilding, Religion, and Film The cost is $50 for dinner; $65 for dinner and two hours of alcohol
Friday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM service.
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502 (Fifth Level) Society President Sheridan Hough will present a paper.
Jolyon Mitchell, University of Edinburgh, Presiding Advance reservations are required.
Sponsored by the Religion, Media, and Culture Unit and the Panelist:
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit
Sheridan Hough, College of Charleston
A roundtable discussion on peacebuilding through film following the
screening of an award-winning comedy about the Israeli-Palestinian Please contact Secretary/Treasurer Jeffrey Hanson at: jhanson@fas.
Conflict: Tel Aviv on Fire (2018, directed by Sameh Zoabi, 96 harvard.edu
minutes). This movie provides a catalyst for discussion about the role For further information visit kierkegaardsocietyusa.com
of film and comedy in one of the world’s most intractable conflicts. At
the heart of this cinematic tale is a Palestinian writer, Salam, who lives
in Jerusalem and draws upon the experiences and skills of an Israeli
checkpoint commander to enhance a popular Palestinian soap opera.
The roundtable will explore this and other films’ representation of
religion, contested borders, divided communities and gender relations,
as well as critical reflection upon the potential of film for contributing
to conflict transformation and religiously informed peace building in
Israel-Palestine.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
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Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Business Meeting
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FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
A22-403 Theme: Violence: Its Justification and Role in the Spiritual Life
Anti-Islamophobia Workshop Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East)
Theme: Teaching Against Islamophobia Reception (By Invitation Michael T. McLaughlin, Old Dominion University, Presiding
Only)
Panelists:
Marriott Marquis-Del Mar (South Tower - Third Level) Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University and
Graduate Theological Union
Friday, 7:00 PM and Later Ted Ulrich, University of Saint Thomas
Patrick Beldio, Reunion Studios, Washington, DC
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union
P22-503 Responding:
International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Michael Stoeber, Regis College and University of Toronto
Culture
Theme: Recent Developments
P22-500
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level) 12 Step Recovery Support Meeting
Mark Peterson, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Presiding Friday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Scholarship investigating the intersections among religion, nature, Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
and culture remains a lively and important area of academic inquiry.
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The International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature,
and Culture is an organization dedicated to creating spaces and A22-500
fostering conversations at the cutting edge of scholarship in this
area. This mini-roundtable brings together the authors of two recent Film: Loyalty
monographs to discuss the state of the field and to identify questions Friday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
of ongoing significance. Sarah McFarland Taylor will speak about her Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501AB (Fifth Level)
book Ecopiety (NYU Press 2019) and Dan McKanan will discuss Eco-
Zachary Moon, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Alchemy (UC Press 2017). Members and friends of the ISSRNC are
invited to join the conversation, share food, and explore opportunities Sponsored by the Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and
for collaboration. Culture Unit
Panelists: Loyalty is the first national storytelling project to recount the
experiences of American Muslim military service members, past
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University
and present. We introduce a diverse group of men and women —
Daniel McKanan, Harvard University immigrants, converts, and American-born Muslims — who gave an
Responding: oath to protect the United States and uphold its Constitution. Given
Robin Veldman, Texas A&M University the rise in Islamophobia since 9/11, the project intentionally shines light
on the contradiction that arises when Muslims volunteer to defend a
nation that does not always defend them. Through immensely personal
stories, the film shows that “loyalty” cannot simply be reduced to one’s
love of country but, in fact, takes many forms and is as complicated at
the American Muslim experience itself. Themes addressed include the
unique work of Muslim military chaplains who are fighting for religious
freedom, interfaith cooperation, and acceptance of Islam in the United
States Armed Forces.
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Regional Officers Breakfast
A23-1 Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Convention Center-7B (Upper Level West)
Yoga Class
Katherine Downey, Dallas, TX, and Rachel Toombs, Baylor
Saturday, 7:00 AM–8:00 AM University, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level)
Gathering of the Presidents, Student Directors, Regionally Elected
Join us for a one hour energizing and wakening yoga class, appropriate Coordinators, and other regional officers for a full breakfast
to all levels of practitioners. Fun flow will incorporate the whole body meeting to discuss activities in the regions, the work of the Regions
— stretching into the legs, releasing tension in the shoulders, opening Committee, and other regional issues. All AAR members in regional
up the heart with some gentle back bending. Please wear comfortable leadership roles (incoming and outgoing) are invited to participate.
clothing. Please bring a mat or towel. Yoga mats will be available for
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23
purchase ($45).
The cost to participate is $25 per person. P23-101
Society for the Study of Chinese Religions
P23-100 Theme: Breakfast for Women Scholars in the Study of Chinese
Religions
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies Board Meeting Saturday, 8:00 AM–10:00 AM
Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:30 AM Marriott Marquis-Solana (South Tower - First Level)
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo E (Second Level)
Kerry San Chirico, Villanova University, Presiding Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
A23-2 G A23-100 FPK

Department Chairs and Program Coordinators’ Breakfast Applied Religious Studies Committee
Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Theme: Another Plan A: Religious Studies Education and Careers
Convention Center-7A (Upper Level West) Beyond the Academy
Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Department Chairs and Program Coordinators are invited to a Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
breakfast gathering. Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
Worried about the job market? Thinking that a career in higher
A23-3 FG ed no longer matches your interests and goals? Or just wondering
about options? Join the Applied Religious Studies Committee for a
New Members’ Breakfast and Annual Meeting Orientation discussion on career paths outside the academy. Panelists hold masters
and doctoral degrees in a variety of religious studies and theology
Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM specializations and will discuss fields including: publishing and
Convention Center-6F (Upper Level West) editing; freelance writing; nonprofits and foundations; government;
Alice Hunt, American Academy of Religion, and Laurie Louise religious communities; academic administration; and more. Panelists
Patton, Middlebury College, Presiding will discuss the ways faculty, departments, and the AAR might better
support scholars as they consider careers beyond the academy. Come
New (first-time) AAR members in 2019 are cordially invited to a hear more about what graduate education in religious studies already
continental breakfast with members of the Board of Directors and a does to prepare us for and enhance our practice of various careers, and
brief orientation to the AAR Annual Meeting. By invitation only. help us think about what more the academy can and should do to
Panelists: support scholars in the pursuit of nonacademic work.
Matt Vieson, American Academy of Religion This panel will include substantial time for audience Q&A and
Robert N. Puckett, American Academy of Religion discussion. Please join us to share your thoughts!
Panelists:
John Erickson, Claremont Graduate University
Kali Handelman, New York University
Greg W. Kimura, Alaska Humanities Forum
Jenny Wiley Legath, Princeton University
Varun Soni, University of Southern California
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-103 #animalsaar19
Animals and Religion Unit and Confucian Traditions Unit
A23-101 FW Theme: Animals, Real and Imagined, in Chinese Religions: In the
Late Antique and Medieval Periods
Graduate Student Committee Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: Critical Conversations: Religion and Polarized Publics Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University, Presiding
Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level) Yukinobu Abe, Chuo University
Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University, and Meghan Animal Symbols on the Knob of Seals during the Han Dynasty: Tiger,
Johnston Aelabouni, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver, Turtle, Camel, and Snake
Presiding Xurong Kong, Kean University
How do scholars of religion engage with the public, and who is “the Macaque: Your God, My Pet
public?” In this roundtable, a panel of scholars will address how scholars Keith Knapp, The Citadel
of religion begin and sustain fruitful conversation within a variety of People Are Special, Animals Are Not: An Early Medieval Confucian’s
public contexts around questions of religion, with particular attention Views on the Difference between Humans and Beasts
to the polarization of the cultural climate. Panelists will draw on their
own experiences of using their expertise in diverse public settings, Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University
reflecting both individually and collectively on the challenges faced Daoist Engagement with Tigers in Medieval China
when engaging the public. This conversation will highlight a variety of Robert Campany, Vanderbilt University
contexts, including the classroom, print media, workshops, blogs, media Animal Tales as Ecologies of Selves and of Human-Animal
appearances and faith communities. It will also consider both everyday Relationships
interactions with religion in public spaces as well as how scholars of
religion engage the public in moments of crisis or heightened political Kendall Marchman, University of Georgia
and cultural tension. The roundtable will allot significant time for A Little Bird Told Me: The Magical Birds of the Pure Land
discussion not only among panelists but also with the audience.
Panelists:
Kristy Slominski, University of Arizona
A23-104 CW
Omid Safi, Duke University Bioethics and Religion Unit
Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University Theme: Contextualizing and Theologizing Bioethics in Public
Discourse and Private Spaces
Elizabeth Palmer, University of Chicago Divinity School
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Isaac Barnes May, University of Virginia
Rahuldeep Singh Gill, California Lutheran University
Terri Laws, University of Michigan, Dearborn, Presiding
Joseph Fisher, Columbia University
A23-102 WK Theologizing Public Bioethics: Human Enhancement under the
President’s Council
Pitching to the Media Jaime Wright, Santa Clara University
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM The Role of Perception and Self-Understanding in the Construction
Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East) of Moral Arguments at the Intersection of Medicine and Religion in
Simran Jeet Singh, New York University, Presiding Medical Emergencies
How to pitch research to the popular press? Two editors and two Hajung Lee, University of Puget Sound
scholar/writers will discuss successful strategies and offer insights into The Meaning of a Good Death and Preferences on End-Of-Life Care
what editors want, how scholars can make research accessible, and among Korean Immigrants
when it’s worthwhile to do so. Anjeanette Allen, Chicago Theological Seminary
Panelists: Do Not Pass Me By: A Womanist Reprise and Response to Healthcare’s
Diane Winston, University of Southern California Cultural Dismissal and Erasure of Black Women’s Pain
Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania
Bob Smietana, Religion News Service
Kalpana Jain, The Conversation
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David Craig, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
A New HIP Public? Urban Congregations and the Healthy Indiana A23-107 #aarcomptheo
Plan
Comparative Theology Unit and Karl Barth Society of North
Business Meeting:
America
Marcella Norling, Orange Coast College, Presiding
Theme: Karl Barth and Comparative Theology: An Unexpected
Dialogue
A23-105 CHW Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East)
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit Martha L. Moore-Keish, Columbia Theological Seminary, and
Theme: Bonhoeffer, Public Discourse, and Resistance Ethics: Christian T. Collins Winn, Presiding
Lessons from Bonhoeffer on the Climate Crisis, Planetary Care,
Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
and the Confederate Monument Debate
Comparative Theology, Comparative Wisdom, and Covenantal Logic
Joshua Ralston, University of Edinburgh
Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level) Analogies across Faiths: Barth and Ghazali on Speaking after
Reggie Williams, McCormick Theological Seminary, Presiding Revelation
Ulrik Nissen, Aarhus University, Denmark Victor Ezigbo, Bethel University
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Polyphony of Life as a Contribution to Public Speaking about the Unspeakable: Conversing with Barth and Ejizu
Discourse on Mediated Divine Action
Karen V. Guth, College of the Holy Cross Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Catholic University of America
“Heritage Not Hate” or “Heritage and Decay”? Lessons for White Shifting Concepts of “Religion” in Barth and the Qur’an
Christians from Dietrich Bonhoeffer on the Confederate Monument
Debate Peng Yin, Harvard University
Karl Barth and Thomas Aquinas on “True Religion”
Adam Vander Tuig, Union Theological Seminary
Are We Still of Any Use? Bonhoeffer, Resistance, and Planetary John Sampson, University of Toronto
Palliative Care Persons on the Way: Karl Barth and Comparative Theology in
Dialogue with Classical Confucianism
Business Meeting:
Responding:
Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg University, and Stephen R. Haynes,
Rhodes College, Presiding Paul Dafydd Jones, University of Virginia
A23-106 A23-108 #deathbeyond C

Buddhism Unit and Religion and Disability Studies Unit Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit
Theme: Critical Analysis and Constructive Thought on Disability Theme: Death and Domesticity: Dying, Death, and Corpses in the
and the Disabled Body in Buddhist Traditions Home
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-21 (Upper Level East) Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502 (Fifth Level)
Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College, Presiding Mohamed S. Hassan, Temple University, Presiding
Alexander Hsu, University of Notre Dame Kira Moolman, University of Toronto
Why Panthaka Can’t Read: Learning Disability and Liberation in A Dying Bodies: Bringing Mortality Home after the Reformation and
Grove of Pearls the Great Transition
Charles B. Jones, Catholic University of America Julia Reed, Harvard University
No Braille Signage in Sukhāvatī? Pure Land Buddhist Teachings Statehood and Sainthood: The Postmortem Apostolic Journey of Francis
about Sensory Impairments Xavier
Bee Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University Jamie Brummitt, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
“Ugly, Unsightly, Deformed…”: Scriptural Ableism, Physiomoral “A Sacred Relic Kept”: Protestant Relics and the “Good Death”
Discourses, and Hermeneutical Strategies for Buddhist Dis/ability Experience in Nineteenth-Century America
Advocacy Business Meeting:
Justin Fifield, Trinity College Amy Defibaugh, Temple University, and Candi K. Cann, Baylor
An Ethics of Care? Disability Discourses in South Asian Buddhist University, Presiding
Monasticism
Stuart Chandler, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Armless Dharma Joy: An Analysis of the Memoirs of Ōishi Junkyō
Responding:
Darla Schumm, Hollins University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-111 #aarhcs C
History of Christianity Unit
A23-109 C Theme: Political Uses of the Past
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level)
Theme: Killing the Joy of Reproductive Time Trish Beckman, Saint Olaf College, Presiding
Allison Murray, Emmanuel College, University of Toronto
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level) Contested Christian Heroines and Heritage: Competing Appeals to the
Amanda Nichols, University of Florida, Presiding Past in 20th-Century Evangelical Gender Debates
Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Fordham University Zachary Smith, Creighton University
Un(der)paid Labor in the Production of Theological Subjects Self-Violence and Othering Violence: The Legacies of Christian
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University Holiness

Fuck the Survivor: Refusing the Future Promised by the Sanctified Michael Baysa, Princeton University
Cancer Patient Continuity and Rupture in the Great Awakening Revivals: Religious
Wendy Mallette, Yale University History as Political Commentary
Disciplinary Temporalities, Temporal Drag, and the Lesbian Feminist R. Ward Holder, Saint Anselm College
Killjoy The Political Use of Memory: Calvin, Niebuhr, and Contemporary
Valeria Vergani, University of Toronto Evangelicalism
Temporal Removal, Spiritual Transcendence: Constructing Indigenous Business Meeting:
Temporalities at the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Religions Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, and Trish Beckman, Saint Olaf
Responding: College, Presiding
Kathryn Moles, Santa Clara University
Business Meeting:
Tom Berendt, Temple University, Presiding
A23-112 #islamaar #aarigw C
Islam, Gender, Women Unit and Study of Islam Unit
Theme: New Horizons in Islamic Studies: Advanced Graduate
A23-110 Work Showcase
Hinduism Unit and Religion and Economy Unit Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West)
Theme: Economies of Modern Hinduism: Markets of Discipline
and Critique Saadia Yacoob, Williams College, Presiding
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Abiya Ahmed, Stanford University
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Prejudice, Progressivism, and Power: Politics in the Making of
“Islamic” and American Muslims on Campus
Deonnie Moodie, University of Oklahoma, Presiding
Muhammad Khan, University of Cambridge
Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco Sociality and the Mystical Theology of ȾAbd al-Ghanī al-Nābulusī
Hinduism and Climate: Economies of Energy, Equity, and Ethics (1641–1731AD)
Cassie Adcock, Washington University, St. Louis Emma Thompson, Princeton University
The Sacred Cow of British India: Free Trade and the Politics of Cow Teleologies of Becoming: Muhammad Iqbal’s Taqdir (Destiny) as a
Protection Model for Rethinking Trans Temporalities
Carter Higgins, Cornell University Ryan Brizendine, Yale University
Saintly Investments: Seva and the Development of Pilgrimage Routes Ibn Arabī and Qūnawī between 1DԘDU and Kashf: a Conjoint
in Contemporary Rajasthan Critique of Rational Inquiry and Defense of Inspired Knowledge
Drew Thomases, San Diego State University Sana Patel, University of Ottawa
The Price Tag of Enlightenment: Murtis as Spiritual Investments on Understanding Muslim Millennials in the Social Media Age
the Margins of Hindu and Hippie
Sawyer French, University of Chicago
Responding: The Rise of Gender Studies in Indonesian Islamic Universities:
Brian K. Pennington, Elon University Indigenous and Imperial Genealogies
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Rahim Samnani, McMaster University
Rethinking the Historical Muhammad: A New Quest A23-116 CU
Responding: Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture
Kristian Petersen, Old Dominion University Unit
Business Meeting: Theme: Moral Injury and Military Chaplaincy
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont, and Elliott Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Zachary Moon, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
A23-113 George Schmidt, US Navy
Penelope and Telemachus at Arlington National Cemetery
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and North
Johann Choi, US Air Force Chaplain Corps
American Religions Unit and Religions in the Latina/o Re-Thinking/Embodying Pastoral Care for Moral Injury
Americas Unit
Mark Lee, US Army
Theme: Remembering and Moving with the Work of Luís D. León: Moral Injury, PTSD, and Growth after Trauma: A Theological
A Commemorative Conversation Reflection for Military Chaplains
Responding:
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside,
Presiding Business Meeting:
Daisy Vargas, University of California, Riverside Gabriella Lettini, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
La Llorona’s Children at the US-Mexico Border: Luis D.
Leon’s Decolonial Scholarship in Confronting State Violence
A23-117 #aarquakers19
Roger Green, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Employing Luis León’s Religious Poetics in the Ayahuasca Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit and Quaker
Diaspora Studies Unit
Luis Leon
Adriana Nieto, Metropolitan State University of Denver Theme: Quakers and Pentecostals in a Colonized World
A Post-Humous Thank You Letter to Luis Leon Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Harold Morales, Morgan State University Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East)
La Llorona’s Beloved Children: An Engagement with the Specters of
Luís León, Toni Morrison, and Jacques Derrida Jon Kershner, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
Andrea Johnson, California State University, Dominguez Hills
Responding:
Gender in the Montgomery Story
Miguel De La Torre, Iliff School of Theology
Kimberly Alexander, Regent University
Laura Perez, University of California, Berkeley “Friend of the Land”: Margaret Gaines’ Establishment of a
David Carrasco, Harvard University Palestinian Pentecostal Elementary School
Cherice Bock, The Oregon Extension
A23-114 C Friends and Watershed Discipleship: Reconciling with People and the
Land in Light of the Doctrine of Discovery
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit Responding:
Theme: Audre Lorde: Lesbian-Feminist, Theo-Poetics Ekaputra Tupamahu, Vanderbuilt University
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Business Meeting:
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) Jon Kershner, Pacific Lutheran University, Presiding
Shatavia Wynn, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Rachel A. Heath, Vanderbilt University
Audre Lorde: The Place of Difference in the Poetics of a Life
Oluwatomisin Oredein, Brite Divinity School
God-Talk and Lorde-Speak: Audre Lorde and Inappropriate
Theopoetics
Courtney Rabada, Northwestern University
The Transformation of Religious Studies through the Confounded
Identities of Audre Lorde
Timothy Dwight Davis, Vanderbilt University
Warrior Poetry and Wicked Words: Audre Lorde as a Foundation for
Feminist Theopoetics
Business Meeting:
Michelle Wolff, Augustana College, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-120 C
Religion in Southeast Asia Unit
A23-118 CH Theme: Challenging Religious Establishments: Scandal,
Transgression, and Sousveillance in Contemporary Southeast Asia
Religion and Humanism Unit Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: The Ethics in the Anthropocene Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level)
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Bahar Davary, University of San Diego, Presiding
Marriott Marquis-Presidio 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
Slavica Jakelic, Valparaiso University, Presiding Everyday Scandals: Regulating the Buddhist Monastic Body in Thai
Maria Antonaccio, Bucknell University Media
Posthumanism and the Disabling of Human Moral Agency in the June McDaniel, College of Charleston
Anthropocene Authority and Performance in Bali: Pedandas vs the New Age

Khurram Hussain, Lehigh University Etin Anwar, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
A Space for Freedom’s Appearance: The Critical Humanisms of Sayyid Debating Equalities: Islamic and Feminist Contestations in Indonesia
Ahmad Khan and Hannah Arendt Responding:
Business Meeting: Thomas Patton, City University of Hong Kong
Slavica Jakelic, Valparaiso University, and J. Sage Elwell, Texas Business Meeting:
Christian University, Presiding
Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina, Charlotte,
Presiding
A23-119 (=S23-110) #rpc
Religion and Popular Culture Unit and SBL Bible and A23-121 C
Popular Culture Unit Religion, Sport, and Play Unit
Theme: Comic-Con at the Intersection of Religion, Bible, and
Theme: Testing the Limits: Sports, Play, and Border Spaces
Popular Culture
Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union,
Elizabeth Coody, Morningside College, Presiding
Presiding
Katelynn Carver, University of Saint Andrews
Vincent Biondo, Humboldt State University, and Gabriel Levy,
The Book of Fan: Interrogating the Deeper Expressions of Fandom as
Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Religion
God, Data, and Michael Jordan: On the Border between Sport and
America Wolff, Florida State University Play
Un-Conventional Religion: Cosplay and Embodiment at San Diego
Zachary Smith, University of Tennessee
Comic-Con
Wrestling with Repugnance: The Competing Subjectivities of a
Kori Pacyniak, University of California, Riverside Fighting Scholar
From Deadpool Jesus to Disneybounding: Cosplay, Religion, and the
Kristin Graff-Kallevåg, MF Norwegian School of Theology, and
Subversion of Gender Norms
Sturla Stålsett, MF Norwegian School of Theology
Joanna Caroline Toy, Ohio State University Vulnerability: Obstacle or Source of Resilience? An Analysis of How
Inventive Religious Communities: Religiosity and Fictionality in Fan Vulnerability Is Interpreted in Christian Sermons Held in the Context
Pilgrimage of International Sports Events
Patrick McCauley, Chestnut Hill College, and Karen Wendling, William Whitmore, Mercersburg Academy, University of
Chestnut Hill College Gloucestershire
Comic Con, Harry Potter, and Pilgrimage Community Between Borders: The Liminality of the Sports Chaplain in Elite
Sports Settings
Christopher Hrynkow, Saint Thomas More College
The Surfing Madonna of Encinitas: Southern Californian Surf
Spirituality, Saving the Ocean, Catholicism, and Intersections with
Integral Ecology in North San Diego County
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Carmen Marie Nanko-Fernandez, Catholic Theological Union,
Presiding
A23-124 CAK
Teaching Religion Unit
Theme: Teaching Religion and James Lang’s Book Small Teaching
A23-122 C (Josey Bass, 2016): A Conversation
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level)
Theme: Maternal Activism in Contexts of Violence David B. Howell, Ferrum College, Presiding
Kate DeConinck, University of San Diego
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level) Small Teaching with First-Year Undergraduate Students
Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, University of Pardubice, Presiding Laura Taylor, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s
Ellen Ott Marshall, Emory University University
Maternal Thinking and Gun Reform in the Contemporary U.S. Small Teaching: Structured Reading Groups
Wonchul Shin, Columbia Theological Seminary Natalie Williams, Saint Peter’s Preparatory School
Salimi in Action: South Korean Mothers’ Transformative Protest Using Small Teaching Tactics in High School Ethics Courses
against Political and Cultural Violence, 1970–1986 Business Meeting:
Cara Curtis, Emory University David B. Howell, Ferrum College, and Molly Bassett, Georgia
Caring as Counter-Logic: Everyday, Implicit Practices of Maternal State University, Presiding
Non-Violence among Incarcerated Theological Students in a U.S.
Women’s Prison
Nichole Phillips, Emory University
Mourning and Black Motherhood: How Tears Birth Social
A23-125 CA
Movements Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Responding: Theme: Grave Attending: A Political Theology for the Unredeemed
(Fordham University Press, 2019)
Annie Hardison-Moody, North Carolina State University
Business Meeting:
Atalia Omer, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Brandy Daniels, University of Virginia, Presiding
Panelists:
A23-123 C Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
Secularism and Secularity Unit Maia Kotrosits, Denison University
Theme: Debunked: Fakes and Their Investigators J. Kameron Carter, Indiana University
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level) Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Robert Lee, Florida State University, Presiding Responding:
Sonia Hazard, Florida State University Karen Bray, Wesleyan College
Getting Real, Nineteenth-Century Style: The Case of Joseph Smith’s Business Meeting:
Gold Plates Rakesh Peter-Dass, Hope College, and Linn Tonstad, Yale
Charles McCrary, Washington University in St. Louis University, Presiding
Knaves and Fools in Melville’s The Confidence-Man: “He Ponders
the Mystery of Human Subjectivity in General”
Jolyon Thomas, University of Pennsylvania
Debunking as Pedagogy: Reforming Religion in Post-Defeat Japan
Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
On Cooling the Mark: What Con Men and the Study of Religion
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Ana Vinea, University of Michigan
Mediatized Debunking: Spirits and Skeptics in Egypt
Emily Ogden, University of Virginia
Are Debunkers Spoilsports?
Business Meeting:
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Presiding
Nathan R. B. Loewen, University of Alabama
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Rethinking Conventional Approaches in Philosophy of Religion:
Classification, Comparison, Appropriation
Nikky Singh, Colby College
A23-126 CW Sikh Scripture and Sacred Synesthesia
Theology of Martin Luther King Jr. Unit Nathan Eric Dickman, Young Harris College
Symbolic Language (Tillichian Approach)
Theme: Remaining Awake: Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Public
Intellectual in the 21st Century Peter Nekola, Luther College
“Religions,” “Philosophies,” and the Problem of Mapping
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level) Business Meeting:
Leonard McKinnis, Saint Louis University, Presiding Gereon Kopf, Luther College, and Timothy D. Knepper, Drake
University, Presiding
Elyse Ambrose, Drew University
King and the Paradigm of Black Partisan Disentanglement

David Justice, Saint Louis University
Remaining Angry: The Intimate Connection between Anger and Love
A23-128 C
in King’s Social Theology Religion, Attire, and Adornment in North America Seminar
Diana Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary Theme: Religious Dress: Presentation, Display, and Spectacle
Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Public Theologian: King’s Approach to the Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Ecological Crisis Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level)
Responding: Nora L. Rubel, University of Rochester, Presiding
Andre E. Johnson, University of Memphis Adrienne Ambrose, University of the Incarnate Word
Business Meeting: Sartorial Spectacle and the Representation of Catholicism in America
AnneMarie Mingo, Pennsylvania State University, Presiding Kayla Renée Wheeler, Grand Valley State University
“Clothes of Righteousness”: The MGT Uniform as a Tool of Nation
Building
A23-127 C Melisa Ortiz Berry, Northwest Christian University
Subversive Evangelism: The Textile Theology of Henrietta Mears
Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion Seminar
Alexander Rocklin, College of Idaho
Theme: Global-Critical Philosophy of Religion: Multi-Entry The Queer Hat of King Solomon: Religion and the Role of Headgear
Teaching Manual in Racial Passing
Elaina Smith, Boston University
Hilton Bayfront-206 (Second Level) Dressed for Glory: African-American Protestant Church Women,
Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding White Uniforms, and Visual Political Theology
Gereon Kopf, Luther College Business Meeting:
Practices, Transformation, and Language Games: Religion without an Martha L Finch, Missouri State University, Presiding
Essence
Jin Y Park, American University
Derrida, Zen Buddhism, and the Act of Religion
Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William and Mary
Knots in the Real: An Akbari “Philosophy of Religion”
Leah Kalmanson, Drake University
Philosophizing “Religion” through Qi-Cosmology
Marie-Helene Gorisse, Ghent University
Proper Acts, Knowledge, and Categories in Jainism: Reshaping
Traditional Distinctions
Fritz Detwiler, Adrian College
Relationalism (Lakota)
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Transnational Religious Expression: Between Asia and Exploratory Session: Translating Tibetan Buddhism
North America Seminar Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: Authenticity and Appropriation: Transnational Religion Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level)
amid Competing Forces of Identity and Authority Andrew Quintman, Wesleyan University, and Kurtis Schaeffer,
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM University of Virginia, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level) Panelists:
Merin Shobhana Xavier, Queen’s University, Presiding Holly Gayley, University of Colorado
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies Amelia Hall, Naropa University
Mid-Century Modern: Transnational Japanese-American Buddhism
Sarah Harding, Naropa University
Jeyoul Choi, University of Florida Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University
Transnationalism and First Generation Korean-American
Evangelical Protestantism: A Case Study Anne C. Klein, Rice University
Anya Foxen, California Polytechnic State University, SLO Nikko Odiseos, Shambhala Publications
Rhizomes and Inosculations: Untangling Modern Postural Yoga Marcus Perman, Tsadra Foundation
Troy Mikanovich, Claremont Graduate University Dominique Townsend, Bard College
Leveraging Authenticity at the 2018 Parliament of the World’s Sangseraima Ujeed, University of Oxford
Religions Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen Tom Yarnall, Columbia University
The “Messiness” of Religious Belonging at Transnational Tibetan
Buddhist Lineage Anniversaries in Ladakh, India
Responding: A23-132 CN
Elijah Siegler, College of Charleston
Exploratory Session: The Future of Anglican Studies
Business Meeting: Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Lucas Carmichael, University of Colorado, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level)
Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Seminary of the Southwest, Presiding
A23-130 C Panelists:
Joy McDougall, Emory University
Video Gaming and Religion Seminar
Lizette Larson-Miller, Huron University College
Theme: Video Games, Religion, and the Making of Meaning
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Claremont Graduate University,
Claremont School of Theology
Martyn W. Percy, University of Oxford
Gregory Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding
Pui Lan Kwok, Episcopal Divinity School
Sharday Mosurinjohn, Queen’s University
The Potential of Misrepresentation in Digital Game Design: Affect, Stephen E. Fowl, Loyola University
Agency, and Meaning-Making Scott MacDougall, Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Jordan Brady Loewen, Syracuse University Responding:
The Religious Experience of Mizuguchi’s Tetris Effect Mark Chapman, Ripon College, Cuddesdon
Lisa Kienzl, University of Bremen Business Meeting:
Religion, Value Systems, and Esports? Thoughts on Analytical Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Seminary of the Southwest, Presiding
Approaches towards Communication and Negotiation of Values,
Norms, and Meaning Making Processes within European Esports
Communities
Tim Hutchings, University of Nottingham
“The Light of a Thousand Stories”: Christian Videogames and Religious
Education
Business Meeting:
Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, University of Bremen, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 P23-104
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
A23-133 KD Theme: Girard the Provocateur: Exploring Mimetic Escalation in
Dangerous Times
Wildcard Session: Defining Digital Theology Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level)
Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East) Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University, Presiding
Kyle Schiefelbein-Guerrero, Graduate Theological Union, United Charles K. Bellinger, Brite Divinity School
Lutheran Seminary, Presiding The Kierkegaard-Girard Option in a Polarized Age
Panelists: Artur Rosman, University of Notre Dame
Stephen Garner, University of Auckland Deceit, Desire, and the Kingdom
Jonas Kurlberg, Durham University Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University

Katherine Schmidt, Molloy College Religion, Identity, and the Catholic University: A Case of Mimetic
Escalation
Peter Phillips, Durham University
Responding:
Heidi Ann Campbell, Texas A&M University P23-106
Søren Kierkegaard Society
A23-134 HW Theme: Kierkegaard Without Borders: A Global Perspective
Women’s Caucus Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: Creating and Expanding Public Spheres and Climate
Change
Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM P23-107
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School in Ohio, Niebuhr Society
Presiding Theme: The Future of Christian Realism
Jennifer Owens-Jofré, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
and Abby Mohaupt, Drew University Marriott Marquis-Leucadia (South Tower - First Level)
Theological Education in the Mobile Classroom: Working toward Dallas Gingles, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Justice for Migrants and Climate Justice along the Border
Panelists:
Rosalind F. Hinton, Tulane University
The Women of Cancer Alley, at the Center of the Public Sphere Peter J. Paris, Princeton Theological Seminary
Kim Martinez, Northwest University Shaun Casey, Georgetown University
Human Flourishing in the Fourth Industrial Revolution Nathan McLellan, The Venn Foundation of New Zealand
Julia Enxing, University of Dresden Elisabeth Kincaid, Nashotah House Theological Seminary
Ecological Literacy Should Be the Foundation for Religious Education:
Re-Visioning Teaching Systematic Theology
Responding:
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Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Adventist Society for Religious Studies
Theme: Sabbath Worship and Book Review Panel
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
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P23-108 Coffee Break
Society for Buddhist-Christian Studies Saturday, 11:30 AM
Theme: Buddhist-Christian Dual Practice and Belonging Complimentary coffee will be served in the back
Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall.
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level)
Thomas Cattoi, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Some persons practice and belong to both the Buddhist and A23-135
Christian traditions, while others pose critical questions about this
dual engagement. From a variety of perspectives this session will Religion and the Arts Award Jury Meeting
explore the many issues involved in dual practice and belonging to the Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Buddhist and Christian traditions.
Marriott Marquis-Conference Room 1 (South Tower - Third Level)
Business Meeting 11:30 AM–noon
Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Panelists:
Ruben L. F. Habito, Southern Methodist University
Miriam Levering, University of Tennessee P23-113
Duane Bidwell, Claremont School of Theology Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
James Ford, Unitarian Universalist Church of Anaheim and Religion
Empty Moon Zen Network, Anaheim, CA Theme: Teach with Confidence: Self-Disclosure in the Classroom
Responding: Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Catherine Cornille, Boston College Convention Center-22 (Upper Level East)
Join experienced faculty leaders for lunch and conversation concerning
self-disclosure in the classroom by students, by teachers. What is to
P23-109 be gained? What is risked? What might we consider as we discern
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Presidential appropriate levels and types of self-disclosure?
Address and Annual Meeting We will begin with a buffet lunch at 11:30 AM and conclude at 1:00
PM.
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Space is limited to 50 participants. Pre-registration is required. Send
an email to Beth Reffett, reffettb@wabash.edu. Registration deadline
Timothy Robinson, Brite Divinity School, Presiding is November 1. For additional information, see: wabashcenter.wabash.
9:00 AM–10:15 AM 2019 Presidential Address edu/programs/aar-sbl-2019/doctoral-student-luncheon
Glen Scorgie, Bethel Seminary San Diego Panelists
The Diffusion of Christian Mysticism: From the Medieval Rhineland Brian Bantum, Seattle Pacific University
to Contemporary China
Katherine Turpin , Iliff School of Theology
10:30 AM–12:00 PM Annual Meeting
All are welcome. For more information on the Society and its events,
please visit sscs.press.jhu.edu; please send additional questions to Anita
Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
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Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
Working Group Luncheon
P23-111 Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, and Kerry Danner,
Theme: International Perspectives on the Field
Georgetown University, Presiding
Join us for lunch! Anyone interested in academic labor is welcome
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level) to join us. Hosted by the Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty
Panelist: Working Group, this annual lunch brings together those concerned
Rosalind I. J. Hackett, University of Tennessee about changes in academic labor and helps brainstorm ways to
advocate and support contingent faculty and just, sustainable
Responding: employment for all faculty. Karen Kelsky of The Professor Is In will
F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder be with us again this year to answer questions. We will also have
Tenzan Eaghll, University of Toronto discussion tables on the gig economy and tax strategies, best hiring
practices for contingent faculty, scholarship by contingent faculty,
Vaia Touna, University of Alabama burnout and self care, and more.
Yasmina Burezah, University of Bonn
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-140 W
Redefining the Public Sphere: The Case of 21st-Century
A23-137 Islam
Applied Religious Studies Committee Meeting
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College, Presiding
Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level)
This session will explore the ways in which new participants
Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
in the public sphere actually redefine it. Ever since 9-11, those
working on the study of Islam have borne an extra burden and
A23-138 FKG responsibility to explain Islam and connect Islam with other
religious and secular traditions within the United States. How
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and does this activity work best? How has simply being Muslim and
speaking up served to re-define the public space in the United
Queer Persons in the Profession Committee States? What are the particular challenges for the mid-twenty
Theme: LGBTIQ Creating Connections Lunch first century non-traditional scholar of Islam in influencing public
Saturday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM discourse about Islam? Three scholars and activists, who work in
Convention Center-7A (Upper Level West) creative spaces in between the academy and the multiple publics
surrounding and intersecting with it, will share their thoughts in
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, Presiding conversation with Laurie L. Patton, AAR President.
All students and junior scholars who identify outside of normative
gender histories and/or sexualities are welcome to join us for an
informal lunch. No fee or pre-registration is required. Please bring
your own lunch; a cash-and-carry station will be available near the
room for those wishing to buy their lunches onsite. The roundtable
leaders listed were confirmed attendees as of April; other senior
scholars in the field may be joining us as well. Linda Komaroff Eboo Patel Kameelah
Rashad
A23-139 K Panelists:
Linda Komaroff, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Women’s Caucus Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, IL
Theme: Presenting at the AAR/SBL Annual Conference Made Kameelah Rashad, Muslim Wellness Foundation,
Easy Philadelphia, PA
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, P23-200
Presiding
Panelist: 12 Step Recovery Support Meeting
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College Saturday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
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P23-202
Association of Practical Theology
Theme: Apprenticing into Practical Theology: Emerging
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Epistemologies, Methodologies, Collaborative Inquiries North American Association for the Study of Religion
Saturday, 12:00 PM–3:00 PM Business Meeting
Convention Center-6E (Upper Level West) Saturday, 1:00 PM–2:00 PM
Yara Gonzalez-Justiniano, Boston University, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level)
This session asks what it means to be apprenticed into practical
theology, given the varied epistemological foundations,
methodological approaches, and contextual partnerships that ground A23-200
practical theological research. How does an emerging scholar find
their way in becoming a practical theologian? In the route from American Lectures in the History of Religions
dissertation topic to professional advancement, how does the scholar Theme: The Cinematic Sacred: A Neglected Genre and Its
navigate the complexities of life concerns (how to find employment), Depictions of Suffering
disciplinary boundaries (how to articulate one’s research and teaching Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
areas), and scholarly expansion (how to deepen one’s expertise). With
“apprenticeship” as organizing metaphor and vantage point, we want
to draw descriptive difference between it and the more recognizable Duncan Williams, University of Southern California, Presiding
notion of “mentorship,” inviting more robust exploration of the many Founded in 1891 to encourage path-breaking scholarship
ways in which one is formed, fashioned, trained, intuited, disciplined through a lecture and book series, the “American Lectures
into a field. We invite a systems approach to thinking about in the History of Religions” flourished under the auspices
apprenticeship in practical theology, for more holistic exploration of of the American Council of Learned Societies and
well-being, street-smarts, relationship to other disciplines, the ecology Columbia University from 1936. At the request of the
of one’s practice. ACLS, the AAR assumed administrative responsibility
Sponsored by the Association of Practical Theology (practicaltheology. Jeffrey Stout for the series in 1994.
org), the session features a panel of paired conversations between The 2019 Lecturer, Jeffrey Stout of Princeton University, gave five
junior and senior colleagues—paired mentors/mentees who represent lectures from February 18–27, 2019 in the Research Triangle of North
such important mentoring networks as the Forum for Theological Carolina on the theme of The Cinematic Sacred. His description
Exploration, the Hispanic Theological Initiative, the Association of of the series is as follows: The cinematic sacred is found wherever
Theological Schools. motion pictures depict something as worthy of reverent celebration,
Question for conversation include: contemplation, remembrance, or protection, either by displaying its
• What is the nature of apprenticeship for practical theology (PT)? excellence positively or by evoking horror at its violation, destruction,
or profanation. This lecture series will argue that the cinematic
• Is apprenticeship into PT intentional or accidental? sacred merits the level of scholarly attention that the related genres
• How has the field evolved? of melodrama, suspense, and horror have already received. Its
• How does one navigate strengths and failures as new scholars in principal expressions include some of the most admired, moving, and
the field? controversial movies there have been, as well as notably interesting
failures. Together, they constitute a global, cross-traditional conversation
• What values guide the journey from identifying a creative topic, — conducted in cinematic language — on matters of high importance.
to mapping out the scope of one’s disciplinary boundaries, to
discovering the sources of inspiration and validation for one’s In this wrap-up lecture, Stout will lay out his approach, define
research and professional advancement? the genre, and then analyze examples of different ways in which
filmmakers depict suffering. The examples will include clips from
• What disciplinary and institutional structures serve as reinforcing Dreyer’s Passion of Joan of Arc, Ozu’s Tokyo Story, Hitchcock’s Psycho,
scaffolds? Burnett’s Killer of Sheep, and Breillat’s Fat Girl.
• What communities of scholarship and practice hold us accountable Panelist:
to all this work?
Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
• How might an emergent scholar become an “employed practical
theologian”? Responding:
Panelists: Molly Farneth, Haverford College
Jasmin Figueroa, Boston University School of Theology David Morgan, Duke University
Milagros Pena, University of Florida
Rebecca Jeney Park-Hearn, Seattle University
Debbie Gin, Association of Theological Schools
Gina Robinson, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Reginald Blount, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-203 WE
Public Understanding of Religion Committee and the
A23-201 W Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting
Theme: 2019 AAR Award-Winning Religion Journalists: What We
Applied Religious Studies Committee Covered in 2018 and What’s Next
Theme: Housing, Health, and Equity: Government as a Site for Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Intersectional Justice Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East)
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Evan Berry, American University, Presiding
Convention Center-17A (Mezzanine Level) The 2019 AAR Journalism Award winners and the Pulitzer Center’s
J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Los Angeles, and Sara celebrated journalism fellows once again engage some of the biggest
Kamali, University of Oxford, Presiding religion news stories and religion topics of 2018–2019.
In the face of increasing policy paralysis in Washington, regional Ian Johnson, winner of the 2019 AAR Award for Best
and local governments have emerged as critical engines for progress In-Depth Newswriting on Religion, is a Pulitzer-Prize
on thorny issues from climate change and economic inequality to winning freelance writer focusing on society, religion, and
housing, homelessness, and racial equity. And despite the overall history. He submitted a series of articles about China and
decline of religious affiliation in the United States, local policymakers religion including “10 Million Catholics in China Face
increasingly are working closely with faith-based community partners Storm They Can’t Control,” “Religion in China: Back to
and negotiating with multireligious and multiracial organizing Ian Johnson the Center of Politics and Society,” and “#MeToo in the
coalitions. This panel, featuring distinguished political leaders who Monastery.”
have placed justice at the core of their leadership, explores the Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, second place winner, is a staff
relevance and influence of their training and expertise in religion, writer at Global Sisters Report writing primarily about the
ethics, and religious history on policymaking and governing. intersections of religion, race and gender in the Catholic
Church. Her collection of articles addressed the diversity
of religious and human experiences including “We’ve
Come a Long Way,” “Seeking Refuge: As resettlement
Dawn Araujo- agency in Kansas closes, other doors open,” and “Michael
Hawkins Brown’s death still galvanizes anti-racism efforts in
Ferguson.”
Mark Ridley- Lois Capps Sadaf Jaffer Joshua McElwee, third place winner, is the Vatican
Thomas
correspondent for National Catholic Reporter who often
Panelists: travels as part of the papal press pool. His articles covered
Mark Ridley-Thomas, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors some of the hottest topics of 2018 including “Bishops’
prosecutions may point to new phase in church’s sex
Lois Capps, U.S. Congress (retired) abuse crisis,” “Irish sex abuse survivors say Francis should
Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton University Joshua admit to Vatican’s cover-up,” and “Wuerl resigns, ending
McElwee influential tenure in wake of abuse report.”
A23-202 FPK The 2019 panel will also include Shirley Abraham, a Cannes prize-
winning Indian documentary film maker whose work is supported by
the Sundance Institute, Pulitzer Center, New York Times, MacArthur
Employment Workshop: Skills for the Non-Faculty Job Foundation, IDFA Bertha Fund, and many other organizations. She
Search has been a fellow of Sundance Labs, Cluster of Excellence Heidelberg,
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM India Foundation for the Arts, and Goethe-Institut.
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level) Jon Sawyer, founding director of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis
Maren Wood, Beyond the Professoriate, Presiding Reporting, an innovative non-profit journalism and education
organization dedicated to supporting in-depth engagement with
Join the co-creator of Beyond the Professoriate, Dr. Maren Wood, to
underreported global affairs, will also join the panel. The Pulitzer
explore strategies for success and career opportunities beyond the
Center has supported dozens of projects on religion and public policy,
faculty job search. Specifically, this dynamic and interactive workshop
among them major features for The New York Times Magazine, PBS
will cover CV to resume building, networking and social media
NewsHour, The New Yorker, and The Guardian.
presence, and will focus on building and marketing skills for diverse
career paths! At the beginning of the session, the AAR will hold an award
ceremony recognizing the 2019 winners.
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Dawn Araujo-Hawkins, Global Sisters Report Status of LGBTIQ Persons, Persons with Disabilities,
Joshua McElwee, National Catholic Reporter Racial and Ethnic Minorities, and Women in the Profession
Shirley Abraham, Documentary Film-maker Committees
Jon Sawyer, Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting Theme: Weaponization of the Mexico/USA Border
Responding: Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Asma Afsaruddin, Indiana University Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level)
Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, Presiding
A23-204 K This panel will be a discussion of a variety of issues tied to the

weaponization of the Mexico/USA border and the implications of
this weaponization. Many times the emphasis between the study of
Publications Committee
religions and the Mexico/USA border has focused upon immigration.
Theme: How to Get Published in Religious Studies Journals Yet, the issues are broader, intersectional, and reach far beyond the
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM physical geographic location of this border. Some of these issues
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire E (Fourth Level) include native sovereignty, trade, the environment, ability, race,
ethnicity, gender, sexuality, illness, migrations, education as well as
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, and their relationships with the study of religions. The panel includes
S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College, Presiding experts from various locations and identities, including those working
This panel brings together five editors of religious studies journals to with non-governmental organizations, not-for-profit organizations,
discuss the nuts and bolts of journal editing, with the aim of making and colleges and universities.
the process more transparent. The panel will be of particular interest Panelists:
to graduate students and junior faculty who are new to the activities of
scholarly publishing. Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
Panelists: Amrah Salomon, University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth Ann Pritchard, Bowdoin College Ricardo Gallego, San Diego LGBTQ Community Center
Johan Strijdom, University of South Africa Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Activist Theology Project, Nashville,
TN
Jimmy Yu, Florida State University
Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton
Marie W. Dallam, University of Oklahoma
Robert Chao Romero, Matthew 25 Movement
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Regions Forum
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Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: The AAR 365
Theme: Love Thy Neighbour and Thyself: Recognising and
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Cultivating Mental and Emotional Health for Students and Self
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level) Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Katherine Downey, Dallas, TX, Presiding Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level)
This round-table of Regionally Elected Coordinators, Student The stigma of mental health struggles doesn’t stop at the threshold
Directors, and Regional Officers invite all interested in how the of the classroom — for students or for staff. Faced with a tightrope
AAR’s 365 strategy extends into the work we do together in and of when and what to disclose about one’s condition, students often
between our regional meetings. suffer and fail to thrive due to a fear that their medical diagnoses or
Panelists: extenuating emotional situations (which include the ever-increasing
Matthew Vaughan, Columbia University stress of simply being in the world, let along the Academy) will either
not be taken seriously, or will come with a degree of prejudice that
Mari Kim, Everett Community College may follow into marking or recommendation-writing.
Cynthia Hogan, Washington and Jefferson College Similarly, staff and faculty can find themselves in a similar situation on
Brian Clearwater, Occidental College the flip-side of that relationship, struggling with their own diagnoses
Tiffany Puett, Institute for Diversity and Civic Life, Austin, TX or situations and when/where/how to divulge them (if at all), and/
or trying to support students who may or may not feel comfortable
being forthcoming with their own struggling. In this conversational
workshop, I aim to discuss and brainstorm a) signs to watch for in
students and colleagues who may be struggling with mental/emotional
pressures, b) compassionate and respectful ways to respond without
overstepping boundaries, and c) ways to cultivate better mental and
emotional health inside and beyond the classroom for one’s students,
one’s peers, one’s colleagues, and oneself.
Panelist:
Katelynn Carver, University of Saint Andrews
Panelists:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary
Nevin Reda, University of Toronto
A23-208 K Daijaku Judith Kinst, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate
Theological Union
Teaching and Learning Committee Viraj Patel, University of Chicago
Theme: Death to the Term Paper! Building Better Assignments Roger Green, Metropolitan State University of Denver
and Assessments Responding:
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Ramon Luzarraga, Benedictine University Mesa
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua C (Third Level)
Davina C. Lopez, Eckerd College, Presiding
The Teaching and Learning Committee will facilitate an engaging, A23-210
hands on workshop that will help participants build assignments that African Religions Unit
are creative, more plagiarism resistant, and, importantly, that will also
assess course outcomes. In this workshop participants will identify Theme: Religious Politics, Governance, and Citizenship in Africa
the key components of a successful assignment; explore strategies for Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
designing creative scaffolded and staged assignments; describe the Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East)
purpose and features of a capstone project; discover how to effectively
consider outcomes in assignment strategies; and demonstrate ways to David Amponsah, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
buffer against plagiarism. Ayodeji Ogunnaike, Harvard University
Panelist: Separation of Tradition and State: Yoruba Sacred Kings, Governance,
and Religion
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA
Dorcas Dennis, Saint Lawrence University
“ You Can Be a Citizen of Mars”: “Token of Passport” Rituals,
A23-209 K International Migrations, and Ghana’s Neo-Prophetics
Jakub Urbaniak, Saint Augustine College of South Africa, and
Theological Education Committee Tshinyalani Khorommbi, Saint Augustine College of South
Theme: Is Theological Education Entering a Post-Christian Africa
Future? Religion, Political Leadership, and Governance: Christianity’s Role in
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM the Rise and Fall of Jacob Zuma
Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East) Lee-Shae Scharnick-Udemans, University of the Western Cape
The State of Religion in South Africa: Negotiating Diversity and
Angela Sims, Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School, Presiding Deviance
Mirroring the transformation of many North American departments
of religious studies over the past quarter century or more, many
faculties of theological education now routinely include Muslims,
Buddhists, Jews, and other scholar-teachers who identify with an
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increasing variety of religious expressions other than the dominant Afro-American Religious History Unit and North American
expressions of North American Christianity. Religions Unit
Today, students from a variety of religious traditions find themselves Theme: Africana Religious Studies: Fifty Years Since the Black
interacting with Christian students within the halls and classrooms Revolution on Campus
of theological education. In what ways is this transformation in
theological studies related to its apparent analogue in religious Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
studies and the recent emergence of the discipline of interreligious Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level)
studies? How is this expansion of religious perspectives in certain Matthew Cressler, College of Charleston, and Ambre Dromgoole,
historically Christian theological schools changing the nature Yale University, Presiding
of theological education itself ? This forum will explore how Panelists:
the developing presence, active accommodation, and scholarly
examination of lived experiences, spiritualities, and beliefs of Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College
a variety of religious subjectivities may actually require a new Ras Michael Brown, Southern Illinois University
understanding of the nature of theological education. Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University
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LeRhonda Manigault-Bryant, Williams College
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University A23-214 #chineserels
Alexia Williams, Yale University Buddhism Unit and Chinese Religions Unit
Business Meeting: Theme: Salvific Beasts: Buddhist Discourses on Liberating
Alexis S. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Vanderbilt University, and Lerone Animals in Medieval China
Martin, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level)
A23-212 C Anna Sun, Kenyon College, Presiding
Kelsey Seymour, Yale University
Anthropology of Religion Unit Feathered and Fluent: The Liberation of Parrots through Human
Theme: Rethinking Spirits: New Discussions on Human-Spirit Speech in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Interactions Alan Wagner, Collège de France
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Dumb Animals? Comparing Chan and Tiantai Views of Animals’
Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level) Abilities in Two Song Liturgies for Releasing Living Creatures
Aftab Jassal, University of California, San Diego, Presiding Christopher Jensen, Carleton University
Moral Exemplars and Miraculous Responses: Rhetorics of Animal/
Panelists:
Human Interaction in the Biographies of Eminent Monks Literature
Taciana Pontes, University of California, San Diego
Stuart Young, Bucknell University
Babak Rahimi, University of California, San Diego A Silkworm Cosmology: The Ethics, Economics, and Samsaric Scope of
Jon Bialecki, University of California, San Diego Sericulture in Medieval Chinese Buddhism
Business Meeting: Responding:
James Bielo, Miami University, and Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State University
University of Newfoundland, Presiding
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Christian Spirituality Unit
Body and Religion Unit and Religion and Food Unit Theme: Water, Christian Spirituality, and Indigenous Spirituality
Theme: Religion, Food, and Bodily Practices Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level)
Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East) Lisa E. Dahill, California Lutheran University, Presiding
Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College, Presiding Kiara Jorgenson, Saint Olaf College
Gwendolyn Gillson, Oberlin College I Speak for the Water: Ojibwe Nibi Grandmothers and Watershed
Consuming Buddhism: Women and Transnational Buddhist (Dis) Discipleship in Midwestern Protestant Communities
Connections through Food and Body
Amy Echeverria, Oblate School of Theology
Christa Shusko, York College of Pennsylvania A Christian Spirituality of the Oceans: The Common Good and Our
Divine Digestion: The Oneida Community’s Theology of Eating Common Seas
Joseph Vignone, Harvard University Colleen Carpenter, Saint Catherine University
“Plain Nonsense!” Diet, Medicine, and Scholarly Memory Mni Wiconi/Water is Life: Native American and Christian
E. Sundari Johansen Hurwitt, California Institute of Integral Spiritualities at Standing Rock
Studies Rachel Wheeler, University of Portland
Voracious Virgin, Desirous Devi: Feeding the Kumārī as an Inversion The Revelatory Tide: Desert Spirituality and Contemporary Water
of the Kaula Sex Ritual Crises
Responding: Business Meeting:
Elizabeth Pérez, University of California, Santa Barbara Margaret Benefiel, Shalem Institute For Spiritual Formation, and
Business Meeting: Glenn Young, Rockhurst University, Presiding
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, and Katherine C.
Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville, Presiding
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-218 A
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
A23-216 Theme: Book Panel on George Demacopoulos’ Colonizing
Christianity: Greek and Latin Religious Identity in the Fourth
Cognitive Science of Religion and Comparative Studies of Crusade (Fordham University Press, 2019)
Religion and International Association for the Cognitive Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Science of Religion Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502 (Fifth Level)
Theme: Comparing Non-Ordinary Experiences Across Cultures: Ashley Purpura, Purdue University, Presiding
Methodological Innovations and Findings from the US and India Panelists:
Tia Kolbaba, Rutgers University
Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Claire Kravette, California State University, Northridge, Presiding

Leonora Neville, University of Wisconsin
Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara
Development and Design of the Inventory of Nonordinary Experiences Grant Schrama, Queen’s University
(INOE) Responding:
Melissa Gordon Wolf, University of California, Santa Barbara, George Demacopoulos, Fordham University
and Elliott Ihm, University of California, Santa Barbara
Validation Methods and Results of the Inventory of Nonordinary
Experiences (INOE) in the US and India A23-219 CW
Michael Barlev, Arizona State University Ecclesiological Investigations Unit
Implementation and Preliminary Findings of the Inventory of
Nonordinary Experiences (INOE) in the US and India Theme: Doing Public Theology: Theologians and Theological
Academic Institutions in Public Spaces
Maharshi Vyas, University of California, Santa Barbara Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
What Were People Thinking? Implications of Testing the Inventory of
Nonordinary Experiences (INOE) for Cross-Cultural Research Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Miriam Perkins, Emmanuel Christian Seminary, Presiding
Stephen Okey, Saint Leo University
A23-217 #islamaar #aarigw FK Public Theology Goes Digital: Diffuse, Discarnate, Distracted, but
Desirable
Contemporary Islam Unit, and Islam, Gender, Women Unit,
and Islamic Mysticism Unit, and Qur’an Unit, and Study of Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College
Rival Powers: Toward a Catholic Eco-Public Theology
Islam Unit
Andrew Suderman, Eastern Mennonite University
Theme: Mentoring and Networking Session
Which Space Counts as “Public”? South African Public Theology and
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Black (or Prophetic) Theology’s Response
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 313 (Third Level) Deepan Rajaratnam, Saint Louis University
Ilyse Morgenstein Fuerst, University of Vermont, Presiding The Spirit Has Called Me, The Church Should Install Me: The
Theologian as an Ecclesially Respositioned Public Intellectual
Business Meeting:
Brian Flanagan, Marymount University, and Vladimir Latinovic,
University of Tübingen, Presiding
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Ethics Unit and Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Hinduism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit and Yoga in
Unit and Liberation Theologies Unit and Transformative Theory and Practice Unit
Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit Theme: A Beautiful Sunset: The Legacy of Gerald James Larson
Theme: Teaching in Times of Crisis: Practices and Promises of (1938–2019)
Liberative Pedagogies Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Convention Center-2 (Upper Level West)
Convention Center-6F (Upper Level West) John Nemec, University of Virginia, Presiding
Jennifer Owens-Jofré, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Panelists:
Presiding Barbara A. Holdrege, University of California, Santa
Panelists: Barbara
Kyle Brooks, Vanderbilt University Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago
Kyle Lambelet, Emory University Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen
Jennifer Quigley, Drew University Lloyd W. Pflueger, Truman State University
Michael A. Walker, North Park Theological Seminary Gerald Larson Paul E. Muller-Ortega, Blue Throat Yoga
Salih Sayilgan, Wesley Theological Seminary P. Pratap Kumar, University of Kwazulu Natal
Mary Emily Duba, University of Chicago David Haberman, Indiana University
Jaisy Joseph, Seattle University Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles
Pravrajika Vrajaprana, Vedanta Society of Southern California
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Gay Men and Religion Unit A23-223
Theme: Who Do You Say I Am? Religious Constructions of Gay Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Male Identity Theme: Kierkegaard on Alterity: Fear, Difference, and Our Shared
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Humanity, Part I
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Michael Pettinger, New York University, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level)
William Stell, Princeton University Natalia Marandiuc, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
Explaining Away the Good Gay: Christianity Today and Aaron Goldman, Harvard University
Homonormativity before the Christian Right “ Your Wife Must First and Foremost Be to You the Neighbor”:
David Brakke, Ohio State University Preferences, Otherness, and the Problem of Special Relationships in
Male Homoeroticism, Priestly Identity, and Visionary Judgment in the Kierkegaard’s Works of Love
Gospel of Judas Tomer Raudanski, Humboldt University of Berlin
Samuel Ernest, Yale University Two Meanings of Nihilism in Kierkegaard’s Aporia of Inoperative
Entering Sodom Death
Business Meeting: Michael Oliver, University of Oxford
Roger A. Sneed, Furman University, Presiding The Deconstructive Supplement of Kierkegaard’s Erotic Love as
Political Resource
Michael Durant, Boston College
Kierkegaard, Kenotic Love, and Preservation of Self and Other
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-226 CA
Reformed Theology and History Unit
A23-224 C Theme: Book Panel Session: The Providence of God: A Polyphonic
Approach (Cambridge University Press, 2018) by David Fergusson
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Religion, Law, USA: Key Terms in the Study of Law, Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level)
Religion, and Culture Paul T. Nimmo, University of Aberdeen, Presiding
Panelists:
Matthew Levering, University of Saint Mary of the Lake
Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University, Presiding
Judith Wolfe, University of St. Andrews
Shari Rabin, Oberlin College
Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, Saint Louis University
Time
Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Zareena Grewal, Yale University
Scripture Responding:
Benjamin Schonthal, University of Otago David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh
Law Business Meeting:
Anna Bialek, Washington University, St. Louis Cynthia Rigby, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and
Justice Paul Nimmo, University of Aberdeen, Presiding
Responding:
Joshua Dubler, University of Rochester
Business Meeting:
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Ritual Studies Unit
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Middle Tennessee State University, and
Richard Amesbury, Arizona State University, Presiding Theme: Ritualized Demonstrations of Feeling and Intention in the
Contemporary West: Tell and Show
A23-225 Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level)
Philosophy of Religion Unit and Theology and Continental Martin Pehal, Charles University, Presiding
Philosophy Unit Michael Houseman, École Pratique des Hautes Études
“Let the Spontaneous Hugging Begin!”: Pointedly Meaningful
Theme: Bataille, Blackness, and the Tumultuous Sacred
Hugging as a Ritual Act
Leigh Ann Hildebrand, Graduate Theological Union
Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West) “Tip Your Bootblack!”: Remuneration, Ritual, and Community
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University, Presiding Reception
Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Caroline Kory, Brown University
The Obscenity of Recognition: Bataille among the Afropessimists Improv Comedy: Can Ritualized Humor Encourage Social Change?
J. Kameron Carter, Indiana University Business Meeting:
Bataille in Black Feminism’s Wake (Towards a Poetics of the Sacred)
Michael Houseman, École Pratique des Hautes Études, and
Danube Johnson, Harvard University Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico, Presiding
An Ecclesiasticall Pessimism
Joseph Winters, Duke University
Between Ecstasy and Anguish: Black Studies and the Excessive Sacred
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Roman Catholic Studies Unit Space, Place, and Religion Unit and Women and Religion
Theme: Catholicism, Clericalism, and Sexual Abuse Unit
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Theme: Power, Gender, Place
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
B. Kevin Brown, Gonzaga University, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Mary Kate Holman, Fordham University Courtney Bruntz, Doane University, Presiding
Clerics without Clericalism? Catholic Structural Reform in Light Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College
of the Sexual Abuse Crisis and the French Worker-Priest Movement Cultivation through Collaboration and Conservation: Gender and
(1943–1954) Power in Jewish Community Farming Spaces
Daniel Cosacchi, Marywood University Hillary Langberg, University of Texas
Is Forgiveness Possible? Clerical Sex Abuse and a New Creation Enter the Goddess: The Transference of Ritual Power in the
Annie Selak, Boston College Mahāyāna-Related Sculpture of an Indian Buddhist Cave Site
The Wounded Church: An Ecclesiological Analysis of the Sex Abuse Matthew Mitchell, Allegheny College
Crisis in the Catholic Church through the Lens of Trauma Theory Mutually Empowering: Displaying the Kami and Buddhas in the
Responding: Women’s Quarters of the Shogun’s Castle in Early Modern Japan
Megan McCabe, Gonzaga University Krista Riley, Vanier College
Documenting, Changing, and Reimagining Women’s Mosque Spaces
Online
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Sociology of Religion Unit and Critical Research on Religion Amy L. Allocco, Elon University
Theme: Du Bois, the Color Line, and the Sociology of Religion
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Tantric Studies Unit
Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Theme: Digital Tantra
Leah Lomotey-Nakon, Vanderbilt University
Du Boisian Pragmatism as Epistemic Disobedience and Public Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Pedagogy Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Mark S. Cladis, Brown University Gregory Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, Presiding
Du Bois: The Poet-Sociologist Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University
Hannah Garvey, Indiana University Dark Webs: Tantra and Black Magic in Cyberspace
The Form of the Color Line: Du Boisian Charts, Antiabsorption, and Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina,
the “Strange Meaning of Being Black” Wilmington
Amanda Ryan, University of Nebraska, Omaha WhatsApp Bagalā!
Latino/a Jewish Identity Formation and Limitations Seth Ligo, Duke University
Responding: Mapping Mandalas: Tantric Constructs in a Puranic City
Edward Blum, San Diego State University Renee Ford, Rice University
Scandals Heard around the World: How the Internet Changes
Business Meeting:
Vajrayana Buddhism
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University, and Warren S.
Goldstein, Center for Critical Research on Religion, Presiding Finnian Moore Gerety, Brown University
Warning: Ancient Tantric Frequencies: Videos of Tantric Mantras
and Seed Syllables on YouTube
Dheepa Sundaram, University of Denver
YouTube Yogis, Neo-Tantric Healing Practices, and a Twofold
Sanitization of Yoga
Responding:
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki
Business Meeting:
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin, and Glen Hayes,
Bloomfield College, Presiding
World Christianity Unit
A23-232 Theme: New Developments in World Christianity: A
Transnational and Multi-Disciplinary Conversation
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Anger: Leashed and Unleashed Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Carlos Cardoza-Orlandi, Baylor University, Presiding
Convention Center-24B (Upper Level East) Deanna Womack, Emory University
Linn Tonstad, Yale University, Presiding Protestants, Gender, and the Arab Renaissance in Late Ottoman Syria
Panelists: Christie Chui-Shan Chow, City Seminary of New York
Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University Vision and Division: Seventh-Day Adventists and Denominational
Schisms in Contemporary China

Dana Lloyd, Washington University, St. Louis
Raimundo Barreto, Princeton Theological Seminary
Elizabeth Antus, Boston College
Decolonizing Ecumenism: Latin America and the Ecumenical
Andrew Prevot, Boston College Movement
Responding: Allison Norton, Hartford Seminary
Anne Joh, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Migrant God, Migrant Faith
Business Meeting:
A23-233 C Corey Williams, Leiden University, and Briana Wong, Princeton
Theological Seminary, Presiding
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Theme: New Research in Tibetan and Himalayan Religions
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Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level) Navarātri Seminar
Benjamin Bogin, Skidmore College, Presiding Theme: Transnational Navarātri
Yi Ding, Stanford University Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Visualizing the Feast and the Feast for Visualization: The *DΧDFDNUD Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level)
as a Communal Liturgy in Early Tibetan Buddhism Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University, Presiding
James Gentry, University of Virginia Jodi Shaw, University of Florida
The Indian “Five Protections” in Tibet: Influences of a Pragmatic The Quiet Transformative Quality of Home, Hearth, and Friends:
Ritual Collection in Tibetan Treasure Traditions Embodiment of Tradition in Domestic Observances of Navarātri in
Eric Haynie, University of Michigan North Central Florida
Should You Stay or Should You Go: Place, Pilgrimage, and the Past- Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona
Future of Buddhist Tradition in Seventeenth Century Tibet Remembering the Goddess in the Desert: Diaspora Navaratri in
Christopher Hiebert, University of Virginia Arizona
“Naturally Complete?”: Shenpen Tayé (1800–1855) and the Place Anne Mocko, Concordia College
of the Great Perfection in the Rise of Modern Nyingma Monastic Nepali Navaratri in North Dakota
Education.
Business Meeting:
Business Meeting:
Caleb Simmons, University of Arizona, and Ute Huesken,
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New Directions in the Study of Religion, Monsters, and the Henry Luce Foundation
Monstrous Seminar, Session 1 Theme: Exploring Public Theology and Public Scholarship
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level) Marriott Marquis-Solana (South Tower - First Level)
Natasha Mikles, Texas State University, Presiding Diane Winston, University of Southern California, Presiding
Steven Engler, Mount Royal University This is a workshop for Luce Foundation grantees working on public
The Semantics of Monsters theology and public scholarship.
Gerardo Rodriguez, Saint Norbert College
Monsters and Racism: Dynamics of Marginalization and Desecration
Stephanie Budwey, Vanderbilt University
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“I Am a Monster”: Intersex and Society’s Creation of Monsters Christian Theological Research Fellowship
Melissa Conroy, Muskingum University Theme: Author Meets Critics: Esther Acolatse, Powers,
Ingenious Monsters: The Trials of Antide Collas and M.C. Principalities and the Spirit (Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2018)
Business Meeting: Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Kelly Murphy, Central Michigan University, and Joseph Laycock, Marriott Marquis-Santa Rosa (South Tower - First Level)
Texas State University, Presiding Alan G. Padgett, Luther Seminary, Presiding
This panel discussion will be devoted to a new work on the demonic:
Powers, Principalities and the Spirit: Biblical Realism in Africa and the
A23-237 West (Eerdmans, 2018), by Esther E. Acolatse.
New Materialism, Religion, and Planetary Thinking Panelists:
Seminar Publications Meeting Joy J. Moore, Luther Seminary
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Frank Macchia, Vanguard University
Marriott Marquis-Mission Hills (South Tower - Third Level) Responding:
Heather Eaton, Saint Paul University, Presiding Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto
CTRF Business Meeting
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Women’s Caucus
Theme: Saturday Emerging Scholars: Redefining Fields:
Considering New Resources
Alicia Panganiban, Mayo Clinic, and Theresa A. Yugar, California
State University, Los Angeles, Presiding
Panelists:
Alejandro Escalante, University of North Carolina
Deborah Fulthrop, SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary
Sheryl Johnson, Graduate Theological Union
Geoff Seymour, University of Ottawa
Responding:
Sarah Bloesch, Elon University
Grace Ji-Sun Kim, Earlham School of Religion
Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University
Susan Shaw, Oregon State University
Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality
P23-205 Theme: Founders’ Circle Prize Essay Presentation
GOCN Forum on Missional Hermeneutics Hilton Bayfront-Indigo H (Second Level)
Theme: Missional Hermeneutics in Contemporary Context: Rachel Wheeler, University of Portland, Presiding
Missionally Located Interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures / Old
Testament Heather M. DuBois, Florida State University
The Spirituality of a Pluralist: A Theological Reading of Connolly’s
Why I Am Not a Secularist
Marriott Marquis-Leucadia (South Tower - First Level)
All are welcome. For more information on the Society and its events,
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding please visit sscs.press.jhu.edu; please send additional questions to Anita
This session focuses critically on the interaction between Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.
contemporary socio-political contexts and missional hermeneutics,
with specific attention to the interpretation of the Hebrew Scriptures
/ Old Testament. What specific hermeneutical questions and
challenges does the contemporary environment raise for missional
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interpretation of these biblical texts? How might the contemporary Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and
context illuminate and inform the nature, presuppositions, content, Academic Relations Committee and Status of LGBTIQ
and/or practice of missional hermeneutics, in light of possible parallels Persons in the Profession Committee and Teaching and
to the contexts out of which these biblical texts arose? Learning Committee
Boaz Rajkumar Johnson, North Park University Theme: Student Evaluations: What They’re Good For, How
A Dalit (Outcaste) Indian Interpretation of the Megillot: Ruth, Song They’re Biased, and Ways to Use Them to Your Advantage
of Songs, Ecclesiastes, Lamentations and Esther
Chuck Pitts, Houston Graduate School of Theology
Marriott Marquis-Carlsbad (South Tower - Third Level)
Jeremiah and the Life of Shalom
Elizabeth Lemons, Tufts University, Presiding
Len Firth, Ridley College, Melbourne, Australia
I Will Gather the Nations: Reading the Prophet Zechariah from a Given the continued reliance on student evaluations for hiring,
Refugee Perspective renewal, and promotion decisions, this session considers the extensive
data which shows how student evaluations are often biased against
Michael C. Rhodes, Memphis Center for Urban Theological women, LGBTQI+ and brown and black communities. Further,
Studies student evaluations are often the only source for evaluating the work
Becoming Just: The Deuteronomic Tithe Feast as Morally of contingent faculty. Evaluations also don’t reliably capture student
Transformative Practice learning and may undermine their own understanding of good
teaching. This panel will be focused on steps that departments and
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM individual faculty members can take to address this issue.
Panelists:
Charisse Baron, Brown University
Coffee Break Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa
Saturday, 3:30 PM Jonathan H. X. Lee, San Francisco State University
Complimentary coffee will be served in the back Jessica Tinklenberg, Claremont University Consortium
of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall. Thelathia Young, Bucknell University
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Applied Religious Studies Committee Program Committee
Theme: Preparing Scholars of Religion for Non-Academic Careers: Theme: How to Propose a New Program Unit
What’s a Faculty Member to Do? Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level)
Marriott Marquis-Del Mar (South Tower - Third Level) Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, and Robert N.
Annette Stott, University of Denver, Presiding Puckett, American Academy of Religion, Presiding
In recent years as the job market for tenure-track academic positions Join the Chief Scholarly Engagment Officer and the Program Unit
has tightened and the use of contingent faculty has exploded, Director for an informal chat about upcoming Annual Meeting
increasing numbers of graduate degree seekers are intending to pursue initiatives as well as the guidelines and policies for proposing a new
nonacademic careers. While some areas of study present obvious program unit.
nonacademic options, for scholars in the humanities, nonacademic
career opportunities and the best preparation for them may not be
obvious and religious studies faculty are exploring how graduate
programs can — and should — prepare all alumni for multiple
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employment outcomes. This panel brings together faculty members Public Understanding of Religion Committee
from a variety of institutions to discuss some of the problems Theme: Book Panel: Who Owns Religion? Scholars and Their Publics
confronting their students and their programs as more people turn — in the Late Twentieth Century (University of Chicago Press, 2019)
by necessity and by choice — to nonacademic career paths. by Laurie L. Patton
Panelists: Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East)
Gabriel Estrada, California State University, Long Beach Mara Willard, Boston College, Presiding
Caroline T. Schroeder, University of Oklahoma Laurie L. Patton is President of the American Academy
Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Claremont School of Theology of Religion, President of Middlebury College, and
a scholar of South Asian history and culture. Her
forthcoming book, Who Owns Religion? Scholars and
A23-302 FP Their Publics in the Late Twentieth Century (University of
Chicago, December 2019), examines the cultural work
Employment Workshop: Who Am I? Disclosing Your Laurie L. of the study of religion through a discussion of extreme
Patton
Identity in the Academic Job Search cases — the controversies of the late 80s and 90s —
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM where the work of scholars was passionately refuted and refused by
Hilton Bayfront-206 (Second Level) the publics they describe. The emergence of the multicultural politics
of recognition during this decade created the possibility of “eruptive”
Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In, Presiding public spaces, which were magnified by the emergence of the Internet,
In this 90 minute informal and interactive workshop, Karen Kelsky a development that changed the nature of readership for all involved
of the Professor Is In will discuss considerations around disclosing in producing scholarship. Patton’s incisive analysis of the six cases
aspects of personal identity on the job search, as well as issues related leads to a series of reflections on the status of public scholarship today,
to navigating identities in the evaluation of, application to, and and the self-critical work that scholars should pursue as they engage
negotiation of academic jobs. We will look specifically at challenges in their work. The book will be essential reading for religious studies
that arise around race, nationality, class, immigration status, illness, scholars.
disability, sexual identity, and gender identity and history, and Panelists:
consider the pros and cons of disclosure, considerations of timing and
approach, and dealing with bias, microaggressions, and tokenization/ Leela Prasad, Duke University
objectification. There are no “right answers” in this evolving and Erik Owens, Boston College
very personal process; the goal of the workshop is to open space for Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
dialogue to prompt guiding questions and insights moving forward.
Responding:
Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
Panelist:
Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In
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Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Ricoeur Unit
A23-305 K Theme: Literature of Virtues
Publications Committee and Status of Women in the Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level)
Profession Committee
Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University, Presiding
Theme: Women and Publishing
Nathaniel Samuel, Saint Thomas University
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Teaching for Civic Agency in a Polarized Society: Insights from
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level) Ricoeur’s Narrative Hermeneutic
Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, Craig A. Boyd, Saint Louis University
Presiding Was Tolkien a Moral Theologian? Exploring the Virtues in Middle-
Submissions by women to journals and books series, including JAAR, Earth

are lower by percentage than the percentage of women in the field Travis Pickell, University of Virginia
of religious studies. This panel brings together women successful as Feet of Clay: Frederick Buechner on Virtue, Saintliness, and Narrative
editors and authors to discuss the reasons for this and offer advice and
support to women in the field for their publishing agendas.
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Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
Elaine Maisner, University of North Carolina Press
and Buddhism in the West Unit and Buddhist Critical-
Lisa Sideris, Indiana University Constructive Reflection Unit
Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans Theme: Buddhism and American Belonging Roundtable
A23-306 FK Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Joseph Cheah, University of Saint Joseph, Presiding
Student Lounge Roundtable
Panelists:
Theme: Mastering Online Education: Effective and Engaging
Teaching in a Digital Classroom Mark Unno, University of Oregon
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Sharon A. Suh, Seattle University
Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level) Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy
Many colleges and universities are turning their attention to online Tammy Ho, University of California, Riverside
and hybrid education in order both to expand their student body and Patricia Ikeda, East Bay Meditation Center, Oakland, CA
accommodate students who are interested in furthering their education
but unable to attend as fulltime residential students. This workshop
draws on years of experience in digital classrooms to highlight some
of the basics of online education from the perspective of a practitioner.
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It emphasizes key considerations about course design, communication Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit
with students, classroom management in an online setting, best Theme: Augustine on Prayer
practices for student engagement, disability accommodations, and a
few tips and tricks learned through years of experience. This workshop Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
proposes a guided conversation during which each of the above topics Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West)
is discussed briefly with encouragement for students to offer their own Paul R. Kolbet, Yale University, Presiding
questions and insights. In addition to addressing student concerns, Alex Fogleman, Baylor University
this discussion will also highlight current scholarship on best practices The Form of Desire: Augustine on the Lord’s Prayer in the Traditio
in online education and particular challenges associated with digital Orationis
classrooms and online education.
Zachary Settle, Vanderbilt University
Panelist:
Praying While We Work: On Augustine’s Re-Thinking of Labor in
Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University Liturgical Terms
Charles Kim, Saint Louis University
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Business Meeting: Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Matthew Drever, University of Tulsa, Presiding Theme: Poetic Favor: Reflections on Grace and the Arts
A23-310 Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level)
Daniel Wade McClain, College of William, and Mary, Presiding
Black Theology Unit Andrew Shamel, University of Oxford
Theme: James Cone and the Black Radical Tradition: Black The Gift of Creation: Grace and Participation in a Christian Theology
Theology, Solidarity, and Violence of Creativity and Making
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Rachel Toombs, Baylor University
Convention Center-24B (Upper Level East) “Almost Imperceptible Intrusions of Grace”: Flannery O’Connor’s Spare
Ben Sanders, Eden Theological Seminary, Presiding Stories and Her Readers
Alease Brown, Stellenbosch University Stephen Wright, Nazarene Theological College
Christian Theology and the Problematic Concept of “Non-Violent” Seeing Again: Grace in Photography
Protest from the Perspective of Blackness
Aaron Shepherd, University of Massachusetts, Lowell
Revolution, Violence, and Reconciliation: Reflections on Black A23-314 H
Insurrectionist Theology Contemporary Islam Unit
Matthew Vega, University of Chicago Theme: Humanism, Humanity, and the Environment in Islamic
The Internationalist Vision of Black Theology and Black Power: Ethics
Toward a Theology of Solidarity between Black Americans and
Palestinians Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Taurean Webb, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Fake Alters and False Idols: The Possibilities and Limitations of Black– Candace Mixon, Macalester College, Presiding
Palestine Solidarity in Contemporary US Afro-Christian Theologies Norah Elmagraby, Emory University
and Spaces “Is the Deen Green?”: The Environment in the Authoritative Islamic
Discourse in Saudi Arabia
Basit Iqbal, University of California, Berkeley
A23-311 An Islamic Dramaturgy of Despair in the Wake of the Syrian War
Body and Religion Unit Abdul Rahman Mustafa, University of Edinburgh
Theme: Gestures of Protest, Resistance, and Critique Gratitude, Gift, and Sovereignty: Political Theology and
Environmental Ethics in Radical Islamic Thought
Taraneh Wilkinson, John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level) Dynamical Conscience and Religious Humanism in Turkish Islam
George Pati, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Responding:
Sarah Dove, Ohio State University
To Take a Stand: Body, Gesture and Protest in the Divided United Sarra Tlili, University of Florida
Methodist Church
Courtney Bryant, Manhattan College A23-315
Erotic Care of the Soul
Eric Hoenes del Pinal, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit
Religious Movement and Its Critics: Gesture and Religious Conflict in Theme: Modernity’s Resonances
Highland Guatemala Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Mona Oraby, Amherst College, Presiding
Panelists:
David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
Caleb Smith, Yale University
Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania
Emily Ogden, University of Virginia
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, Emmanuel College
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Mary Clark Moschella, Yale University
Responding:
Todd D. Whitmore, University of Notre Dame
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Daoist Studies Unit
Theme: The “Dao” in the World: How Daoism Became Daoism in
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the Age of Globalization Gay Men and Religion Unit and Religion and Sexuality Unit
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM and African Association for the Study of Religions
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Theme: Kenyan, Christian, Queer: Religion, LGBT Activism, and
Jessey Choo, Rutgers University, Presiding Arts of Resistance in Africa (Penn State University Press, 2019) by
Marc Lebranchu, École Pratique des Hautes Études Adriaan van Klinken
Globalization of Taoism: The Case of Europe Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM

Fenggang Yang, Purdue University Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level)
Sinicization of Taoism? No Kidding! Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School in Ohio,
Nikolas Broy, Leipzig University Presiding
Spiritual Poaching or Authentic Dao? Daoist-Oriented Teachings in Panelists:
the Global Spread of Yiguandao Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University
Sarojini Nadar, University of the Western Cape
A23-317 #aareco2019 #deathbeyond H Nathanael Homewood, Rice University
Nina Hoel, University of Oslo
Death, Dying, and Beyond Unit and Religion and Ecology Responding:
Unit
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds
Theme: Death, Dying, and Climate Change
Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level) A23-320
Amy Defibaugh, Temple University, Presiding Hinduism Unit and Indian and Chinese Religions
Kristen Daley Mosier, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Compared and Yogācāra Studies Unit
Just as the Son of Man Must be Lifted Up, So Too the Orca: A Cosmic
Salvation Story Theme: Yogācāra and Vedānta in Modern Chinese and Indian
Thought
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, University of Geneva Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sacrifice in the Face of Climate Devastation
Frederick Simmons, Princeton Theological Seminary
From Alarm to Autopsy: Climate Change and the Role of Death in Eyal Aviv, George Washington University, Presiding
Contemporary Christian Hope Jingjing Li, Leiden University
From the Yogācāra Concept of Consciousness to the Modern Confucian
Doctrine of Volition
A23-318 A Jessica Zu, Princeton University
The Global Flow of Darwinism and A New Yogācāra in Modern
Ecclesial Practices Unit and Practical Theology Unit China
Theme: Christian Theology and Ethnography in Intersection: Daniel Raveh, Tel Aviv University
Engaging Todd Whitmore’s Imitating Christ in Magwi: An Sri Aurobindo and Neo-Vedānta
Anthropological Theology (Bloomsbury, 2019)
Nalini Bhushan, Smith College
Modern Philosophy of Science from a Vedanta Perspective: A Case
Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West) Study
Michael Grigoni, Duke University, Presiding
Panelists:
Simeon O. Ilesanmi, Wake Forest University
Ted A. Smith, Emory University
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Simon Leese, Utrecht University
A23-321 Sensory Pilgrimages and Encounters with the Prophet: Performing the
Hajj through Arabic and Urdu Poetry in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit and
Responding:
Lesbian-Feminisms and Religion Unit
Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
Theme: Imagining New Worlds: Intersectional Visions for the
Future of Religion and Technology
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Amy Michelle DeBaets, Oakland University, Presiding
Japanese Religions Unit
Theme: Living Right: “Life” (Inochi) in Millennial Japan
J. Jeanine Thweatt, Flagler College
Beyond the Cyborg Manifesto: Haraway, Jesus and Afrofuturist Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Visions of Posthumanity Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level)
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University Tim Graf, Nanzan University, Presiding
The “Prosthetic Erratic” as a Symbol for Disability Eschatology Panelists:
Myrna Sheldon, Ohio University Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College
Justice and Life in Reproductive Enhancements Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Ohio State University
Heather Blair, Indiana University
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International Development and Religion Unit A23-325 CAK
Theme: Religion, Development, and Humanitarian Aid - Part I Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Theme: The Annotated and Global Luther (Fortress Press, 2015):
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire M (Fourth Level) Producing and Using the Volumes (In Classroom and beyond)
John Rees, University of Notre Dame, Australia, Presiding Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Leonie Geiger, University of Bonn Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East)
“Saving Women by Empowering Them”: Constructions of Gender and Kristen E. Kvam, Saint Paul School of Theology, Presiding
Religion in German Christian Development Agencies
Panelists:
Marie Stettler Kleine, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State
University Wanda Deifelt, Luther College
Proselytizing Problem-Solving: Religion and the Training of Derek Nelson, Wabash College
“Engineers-for-Good” Jayakiran Sebastian, United Lutheran Seminary
John Blevins, Emory University Kirsi Stjerna, Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
Consequences Intended and Unintended: Re-Thinking the Effects of Business Meeting:
the Newfound Appreciation of Religion in the Field of International
Development Allen G. Jorgenson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Presiding
Business Meeting:
Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds, and Christopher A23-326
Duncanson-Hales, University of Sudbury, Presiding
Moral Injury and Recovery in Religion, Society, and Culture
Unit and ARC: Arts | Religion | Culture
A23-323 Theme: Creative Practice, Community Healing, and Trauma’s
Wake: Theopoetics in Conversation with Moral Injury
Islamic Mysticism Unit and Religion in South Asia Unit
Theme: Cultivating Devotion to the Prophet in Pre-Modern South
Asia Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502 (Fifth Level)
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Callid Keefe-Perry, Arts | Religion | Culture, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level) Panelist:
Sarah Pierce Taylor, Concordia University, Presiding Ashley Theuring, Xavier University
Usman Hamid, Hamilton College
Enshrining Devotion to the Prophet in Mughal India
Ayesha Irani, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Translation as Devotion, Translation as Mission: Representations of
the Prophet Muhammad in the Making of Bengali Islam
Fatima Quraishi, University of California, Riverside
Prophetic Images: Religious Devotion in Nineteenth-Century
Kashmir
Qur’an Unit
A23-327 Theme: Sound, Orality, and the Qur’an
Philosophy of Religion Unit Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level)
Theme: 4E Cognition and Philosophy of Religion Aisha Geissinger, Carleton University, Presiding
Lien Fina, Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level) Speaking Politics through the Qur’an: Oral Interpretation of the
Kevin Schilbrack, Appalachian State University, Presiding Qur’an in Contemporary Sufi Gatherings in Indonesia
Joel Krueger, University of Exeter Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University
Religious Cognition and the Extended Mind When Sound Becomes Noise: The Production of Pious Soundscapes in
Jonathan Russell, Claremont Graduate University the Qur’an, Sunnah, and Early Islamic Medical Ethics
Feminist Philosophy of Religion, Ritual Theory, and 4E Cognition Tim Orr, Indiana University - Purdue University, Columbus
Teed Rockwell, Sonoma State University The Qur’an’s Composition: Assessing Andrew Bannister’s Oral
Extended Mind and Theological Dualism Formulaic Study of the Quran
Erin Kidd, Saint John’s University Responding:
Embodied Cognition, Whiteness, and the Racial Imagination Lauren Osborne, Whitman College
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Political Theology Unit Religion and Cities Unit
Theme: Political Theology and Decolonialism Theme: Making and Breaking Urban Space: Religious Engagement
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM with Visual Culture
Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level) Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Elise Edwards, Baylor University, Presiding
Rafael Vizcaino, Rutgers University
Decolonizing the Postsecular Michael McLaughlin, Florida State University
Modern Exodus: The Black Religious Space of New Deal Public Art
Aseel Najib, Columbia University
The Sunni Imamate: Politics, Religion, or Neither? Edward Dunar, Fordham University
Murals beneath the Expressway: Dangerous Memory in Chicano Park
Joi Orr, Emory University
The Peculiarity of Black Sovereign Citizens: Martyrs, Saints, and the Kevin Hargaden, Jesuit Centre for Faith and Justice, Dublin,
Brazenly Criminal Ireland
(Irish) Neoliberalism’s Ruins: Ghost and Vacant Properties as Sign-
J. Barton Scott, University of Toronto Posts of Idolatry
Policing “Secular Heresy”: Religion and the Law of Sedition in
Colonial India
Business Meeting:
David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, and Inese
Radzins, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
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Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives Unit Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics Panel on the Third Disestablishment: Theme: Authors-Meets-Critics: Monica Miller and Chris
Church, State, and American Culture, 1940–1975 Driscoll’s Method As Identity: Manufacturing Distance in the
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Academic Study of Religion (Rowman and Littlefield, 2018)
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 2 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding Marriott Marquis-Coronado (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Panelists: Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn, Presiding
Mark A. Chancey, Southern Methodist University Panelists:
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico Martin Kavka, Florida State University
Nathan Walker, 1791 Delegates, Philadelphia, PA Stacey Floyd-Thomas, Vanderbilt University
Yasmina Burezah, University of Bonn
Responding:
Moritz Klenk, University of Berne
Steven Green, Willamette University
Responding:
Emma Long, University of East Anglia
Monica R. Miller, Lehigh University
Christopher Driscoll, Lehigh University
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Religion and the Social Sciences Unit A23-335
Theme: Immigration, Transnationalism, and the Construction of
Difference Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Theme: Black Evangelical Studies: Reframing the Evangelical
Movement in Latin America and the United States
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level)
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, Presiding
Robert Heimburger, Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico
de Colombia, International Foundation for Electoral Systems, Brendan Jamal Thornton, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Oxford Pastorate Rachel Cantave, Swarthmore College
Does Colombia Need Forgiveness to Achieve Peace? Colombian Law is a Battlefield: Hate Speech and Spiritual Warfare in the
Conflict Survivors and Internally Displaced Persons’ Christian Vision Brazilian UCKG
of Forgiveness in Dialogue with Martha Nussbaum’s Philosophy of Christina Davidson, Harvard University
Forgiveness Born Again Black: Racial Formation among Dominicans and
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, Denise Daniels, Seattle Brazilians in the African Methodist Episcopal Church
Pacific University, and Deidra Carroll Coleman, Rice University Todne Thomas, Harvard University
Religious Discrimination in the Workplace: The Role of Religious Black Evangelicalism and Racialized Skepticism
Tradition
Responding:
Business Meeting:
Jualynne E. Dodson, Michigan State University
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, University of Iowa, and Nichole Phillips,
Emory University, Presiding
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A23-333 Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit Theme: What Is Nature? Toward a Science-Engaged Theology of
Nature
Theme: Pedagogy and Affective Knowledge
Mark Harris, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Jill Petersen Adams, Emory University, Presiding
Panelists:
S. Kyle Johnson, Boston College
Affect, Mysticism, and Orthopathy: An Interdisciplinary Reading of Wesley J. Wildman, Boston University
Julian of Norwich Fiona Ellis, University of Roehampton
Justine Ellis, University of Oxford Helen De Cruz, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
“The Integrity of the Teacher”: Challenges for Non-Dualist Pedagogy Celia Deane-Drummond, University of Oxford
in Religious Literacy Christopher Southgate, University of Exeter
Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University Sarah Lane Ritchie, University of Edinburgh
The Affective Life of Pedagogy Responding:
Tom McLeish, University of York
Bin Song, Washington College
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 The Utopian Seed of Modern Chinese Politics in Ruism
(Confucianism) and Its Paul Tillich Remed
Responding:
A23-337 Robison B. James, University of Richmond
Sikh Studies Unit
Theme: The Function and (Re)Framing of Sikh Literature
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Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level) Transformative Scholarship and Pedagogy Unit
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University, Presiding Theme: Transgressing Borders: Immigration and Transformative
Pedagogy in Religious Studies Classrooms
Harjeet Grewal, University of Calgary
Sabd and Sakhi Literature: Guru Gobind Singh at the Banks of the
Ganges Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East)

Sukhdeep Sembi, University of British Columbia Michael Brandon McCormack, University of Louisville, Presiding
Headless Heroics: Examining the Kharag Singh Story within the Cassie Trentaz, Warner Pacific College
Dasam Granth Crossing Borders and Raising the Stakes: Bridging Higher Education
Amrit Deol, University of California, Merced and Community Organizing to Get Real Shit Done in Real Time, a
The Makings of a Mutiny: The Significance of Ghadri Poetry and Sikh Model
Literature in Punjabi Anticolonial Movements Sara Williams, Emory University, and Suzanne Klatt, Miami
Tejpaul Bainiwal, University of California, Riverside University
Reception of Sikh Literature among Early Sikh American Immigrants On the Borders: A Multiaxial Approach to Transformative Pedagogy
on Immigration
Kelly Figueroa-Ray, Saint Olaf College
A23-338 #aarsor Even the Cartel Members Pray: Studying Immigration through the
Lens of Lived Theology
Sociology of Religion Unit Business Meeting:
Theme: Religion, Spirituality, and Secularity in Cascadia: Fresh Laura Stivers, Dominican University of California, Presiding
Reflections from the Field
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level) A23-341 C
Paul Bramadat, University of Victoria, Presiding Vatican II Studies Unit
Panelists: Theme: Reconsidering Vatican I: Challenges and Opportunities
James K Wellman, University of Washington After 150 Years
Katie Corcoran, West Virginia University Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Patricia O’Connell Killen, Gonzaga University Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level)
Suzanne J. Crawford O’Brien, Pacific Lutheran University Richard Gaillardetz, Boston College, Presiding
John Slattery, American Association for the Advancement of
Science
A23-339 Before Gaudium et Spes, Fides et Ratio, or Laudato Si: The
Importance of Vatican I’s Dei Filius in Contemporary Conversations
Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit of Theology and Science
Theme: Tillich and Other Religions
Peter De Mey, University of Leuven
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM The Difficult Search for an Adequate Biblical Basis of Episcopal
Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East) Collegiality at Vatican II: The Clash between Astute Defenders of
Bryan Wagoner, Davis and Elkins College, Presiding Vatican I and Advocates for a Better Balance between Pope and
Bishops
Elliot Ratzman, Lawrence University
Tillich before and after Auschwitz: Jews and Ultimate Concern Dung Trang, Villanova University
Primacy and Synodality: From Vatican II to Pope Francis’ Vision of
Kirk MacGregor, McPherson College Ecclesial Renewal in “Evangelii Gaudium”
The New Being in Pure Land Buddhism
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Women and Religion Unit
Business Meeting:
Theme: Alternative Production of Knowledge and Embodied
Catherine E. Clifford, Saint Paul University, Presiding Knowledge
A23-342 Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Mugdha Yeolekar, California State University, Fullerton, Presiding
Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit Haruka Umetsu Cho, Harvard University
Theme: Wesleyans and Methodists and the Variety of Late- Erotic Desires and Acts as a Woman’s Way of Knowing the Divinity:
Twentieth-Century Theological Methodologies Reading Arishima Taeko, A Certain Woman
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Ailie Posillico, Villanova University
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level) Words on Fire: Gemma Galgani and the Power of Authorial Voice
Priscilla Pope-Levison, Southern Methodist University, Presiding Nicholas Andersen, Brown University
Kenneth J. Collins, Asbury Theological Seminary Facing West with Margaret Fuller: Summer on the Lakes and the
Paleo-Orthodoxy and the Diminishment of Theological Method: A Naturalization of US Settler Colonialism
Critical Examination of the Theological Agenda of Thomas C. Oden Responding:
Ryan R. Gladwin, Palm Beach Atlantic University Tamara Lewis, Southern Methodist University
Faith Seeking Efficacy: José Míguez Bonino as a Wesleyan Theologian
Brent Peterson, Northwest Nazarene University, and Steven T.
Hoskins, Trevecca Nazarene University A23-345
A Theologian of Love: An Assessment of Mildred Bangs Wynkoop’s
Impact on the Wesleyan/Holiness Movement and the Church of the World Christianity Unit
Nazarene Theme: Conceptualizing Language Within World Christianity
A23-343 C Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level)

Briana Wong, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Western Esotericism Unit Thomas Seat, Princeton Theological Seminary
Theme: Authority and Feminine Leadership in Esoteric Groups World Christianity, Translatability, and the Philosophy of Language
Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Rakesh Peter-Dass, Hope College
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level) Tactical Hindi: Christian Politics of Language
Brigid Burke, Montclair State University, Presiding Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh
If I Speak in Human Tongues and Theologies, and Have Not Love:
Elizabeth Lowry, Arizona State University Language and Theology in African and Chinese Christianity
Mina “Margery” Crandon: Gynecology and (Im)Purity in the Jazz
Age Séance
Manon Hedenborg White, Södertörn University
Leah Hirsig, Scarlet Woman: Proximal Authority and Gender in
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Aleister Crowley’s Thelema New Directions in the Study of Religion, Monsters, and the
Georgia van Raalte, University of Surrey Monstrous Seminar, Session 2
The Authority of Dion Fortune: Performance, Polarity and Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Mediumship Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level)
Business Meeting: Michael Heyes, Lycoming College, Presiding
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, Presiding Kathleen M. Self, Saint Lawrence University
Loki’s Monstrous Brood
Esther Hamori, Union Theological Seminary
Monster “Family Resemblance” and Identification of the Biblical God’s
Entourage of Monsters
Madadh Richey, University of Chicago
Interrogating the Monster/Demon Divide in Biblical Studies: 4HΛHY
and Dever as Omens of Gory Disorder in Deuteronomy 32, Hosea
13–14, and Habakkuk 3
Justin Mullis, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Dragons of the Prime: Interrogating Monster Taxonomy via the
Conflation of Dinosaurs and Dragons
Panelists:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Michael Barram, Saint Mary’s College of California
Stina Busman Jost, Bethel University
Drew Hart, Messiah College
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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and John R. Franke, Second Presbyterian Church, Indianapolis, IN
Religion Responding:
Theme: Celebrating the Scholarship of Teaching Michael Barram, Saint Mary’s College of California
Join the editorial team of the new peer-reviewed, open-access, digital
journal, The Wabash Center Journal on Teaching (wabashcenter.wabash.
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Friends of the Academy Reception
edu/journal), for a forum celebrating the scholarship of teaching and

learning. Authors of the inaugural issue ( January 2020) will discuss Saturday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
their essays on teaching in the changing contexts of theological Hilton Bayfront-Elevation (30th Level)
and religious studies. Share your ideas for publishing scholarship
on teaching in an open-access, digital platform. More information: Individuals who have been members of the AAR for 40 years or
wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/aar-sbl-2019/wabash-center- more and those whose generosity allows us to continue many of
journal-on-teaching. our special programs are invited to a reception hosted by the AAR
Board of Directors.
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GOCN Forum on Missional Hermeneutics P23-401
Theme: Book Review Panel Discussion of Michael Barram’s Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality International
Missional Economics: Biblical Justice and Christian Formation Relations Committee Meeting
(Eerdmans, 2018) Saturday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Saturday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire Boardroom (Fourth Level)
Darrell L. Guder, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
Missional hermeneutics proposes that particular approaches to P23-405
reading biblical texts will be especially fruitful in conceptualizing both Society for the Study of Christian Spirituality Emerging
the meaning of these texts as well as their historical and contemporary
significance. In his recent book Missional Economics: Biblical Justice Scholars Dinner
and Christian Formation (Eerdmans, 2018), Michael Barram offers a Saturday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
series of reflections on a range of biblical texts that form readers for Offsite
their vocation in the world with respect to the Christian practice of Emerging scholars (graduate students, those within six years of
discipleship in particular relation to economic justice. In so doing, graduation, and those in their first six years of employment) pursuing
he offers both methodological insights into the practice of missional the study of spirituality are invited to share conversation at an
hermeneutics and specific readings and conclusions that give shape informal dinner, with costs subsidized by the Society for the Study
to the witness of the church and its mission in the world. In this of Christian Spirituality. For more information, please visit the
session, panelists will critically assess Barram’s work by engaging with Society’s website, sscs.press.jhu.edu; please send additional questions
his working assumptions and methodologies as well as his particular to Emerging Scholars Coordinators Kyle Schenkewitz (kyle.
conclusions. The session will conclude with a response from Barram schenkewitz@gmail.com) and Rachel Wheeler (wheelerr@up.edu).
and interaction among the panelists and the audience.
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Society for the Study of Japanese Religions
Theme: Roundtable Discussion on The New Nanzan Guide to
Japanese Religion
Marriott Marquis-Solana (South Tower - First Level)
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Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and AAR/SBL Graduate Student Happy Hour
Teaching and Learning Committee Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Content Creation and Intellectual Property Panel Convention Center-7B (Upper Level West)
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Free drinks anyone? Graduate student members of the AAR and
Marriott Marquis-Carlsbad (South Tower - Third Level) SBL are invited to a low-key gathering where you can meet with
Matthew Bingley, Georgia State University, Presiding other graduate students, connect with your AAR/SBL student reps,
and get a free drink on us! Sponsored by the AAR Graduate Student
This workshop will examine related issues in intellectual property Committee and the SBL Student Advisory Board.
and content creation in higher education. The academic model relies
on the creation of content for scholarship and teaching. Open access
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for content generation and use. This workshop will examine the role
of open access scholarship in religious studies and open educational Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession
resources in teaching. Committee
In addition, the development of reusable course templates often Theme: Islamophobia: White Supremacy, Ethno-Nationalism, and
requires a collaboration between the college, instructional designers, the Academy
and faculty subject matter experts. This leads to questions of the
fairness of compensation for course design, questions of academic Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
freedom in teaching, and the ethics of intellectual property retention Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East)
in creating reusable materials. Munir Jiwa, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Panelists: This panel will reflect on the historical and contemporary conditions
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA of Islamophobia, white supremacy and racism and how these factors
impact and shape the politics of academic knowledge production
Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary
about Islam and Muslims. Panelists will discuss the particular ways
Islamophobia manifests in global contexts, including online, war
A23-402 AFPWK and the military industrial complex, slavery, civilizing projects on
“reforming” Islam and Muslims, CVE, surveillance and policing
Applied Religious Studies Committee programs, the structural violence against immigrants and refugees
and the rise of ethnonationalism. Panelists will also discuss the well-
Theme: Considering Careers and Success Outside of Academy: A documented ‘Islamophobia Industry’ which has provided funding
Book Discussion with Kelly J. Baker to an interconnected web of foundations, research centers, think
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM tanks, data collection nodes, translation services and conferences
Marriott Marquis-Del Mar (South Tower - Third Level) through which Islamophobic ideologies are purveyed, circulated
and domesticated. How can scholars in both the social sciences
Shreena Gandhi, Michigan State University, Presiding and humanities address and counter the epistemic and ontological
Not every PhD becomes a professor. Some never want to, but a challenges posed by the alt-right and the global networks of
growing number discover too late that there’s little room in the Islamophobia? What are the responsibilities for public intellectuals in
academy for them or it’s not a good fit for what they want their challenging these concerns and what are the stakes involved in actively
careers to be. They also might find that they are not prepared for a job working against racism and Islamophobia? What are the limits and
hunt outside of the ivory tower. But religious studies scholars can shift possibilities of studying Islamophobia comparatively?
into work outside the academy. Panelists:
Join Kelly J. Baker, co-editor of the 2018 book Succeeding Outside Jasmin Zine, Wilfrid Laurier University
the Academy: Career Paths beyond the Humanities, Social Sciences, and
STEM (University Press of Kansas, 2018) for a discussion of the book, Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, Zaytuna
including the diverse career options for religious studies scholars. College
Panelists will also reflect on why scholars leave the academy, share Amir Hussain, Loyola Marymount University
their experiences on their own professional paths, and consider how
we should be preparing grad students for diverse careers.
Panelists:
Kelly J. Baker, Women in Higher Education
Heidi Ippolito, University of Denver
Sarah “Moxy” Moczygemba, University of Florida
Hussein Rashid, Islamicate, LLC, New York, NY
Mary Beth Yount, Neumann University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 A23-407 #animalsaar19 A
Animals and Religion Unit and Buddhism Unit
A23-405 Theme: At the Intersection of Buddhist and Animal Studies: Reiko
Ohnuma’s Unfortunate Destiny: Animals in the Indian Buddhist
African Religions Unit Imagination (Oxford University Press, 2017)
Theme: Studying Religion with Achille Mbembe Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East)
Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level) Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Devaka Premawardhana, Emory University, Presiding Panelists:
Emmanuel Buteau, Haitian Institute of Atlanta Geoffrey Barstow, Oregon State University
Black Reason within the Bounds of Religion: Achille Mbembe and Eric Meyer, Carroll College
Haitian Religion
Janet Gyatso, Harvard University
David Ngong, Stillman College Aaron Gross, University of San Diego
Honor and Bondage in African Politics: Rethinking Contemporary
African Political Theology Responding:
Laura Grillo, Georgetown University Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College
Mbembe’s Matrix and the Matri-Archive: The “Little Secret” to
Conjuring Away the Postcolonial Spell
A23-408 C
A23-406 A Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit
Theme: Ritualistic/Artistic Destruction in the Asia-Pacific
Afro-American Religious History Unit and Pentecostal– Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Charismatic Movements Unit Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level)
Theme: Holy Black Female Personhood: A Roundtable Discussion Gloria Maité Hernández, West Chester University, Presiding
of The Labor of Faith: Gender and Power in Black Apostolic
Pentecostalism (Duke University Press, 2017) Patricia Giles, Syracuse University
Encountering the Collapse of Zhang Huan’s Sydney Buddha
Lisa Beyeler-Yvarra, Duke University
Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level) “Going through the Shadow into Light”: Butoh as the Embodiment of
Marlon Millner, Northwestern University, Presiding Cultural Unraveling
Panelists: Business Meeting:
N. Fadeke Castor, Live Oak, TX Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University, and Zhange Ni, Virginia
Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University Polytechnic Institute and State University, Presiding
Emilie M. Townes, Vanderbilt University
Eziaku Nwokocha, University of Pennsylvania A23-409
Ashon Crawley, University of Virginia
Responding: Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
and Law, Religion, and Culture Unit
Judith Casselberry, Bowdoin College
Theme: Race, Law, and Asian American Religions
SueJeanne Koh, University of California, Irvine, Presiding
Khyati Joshi, Fairleigh Dickinson University
Asian American Religions: A Window on Christian Privilege in
America
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan
The Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal Death Syndrome (SUNDS)
Crisis and the Creation of a Hmong American Religion
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Justin Stein, Bukkyo University
Negotiating the Legal Status of Reiki and Other Spiritual Therapies in
the United States
A23-412 C
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit
Dusty Hoesly, University of California, Santa Barbara
Orientalism, Brainwashing, and the Unification Church Theme: Labor of Race, Labor of LIfe
A23-410 #chineserels C Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College, Presiding
Chinese Religions Unit Gabriel Raeburn, University of Pennsylvania
Theme: Disaster and Calamity in Chinese Religions from the “The Color Line Was Washed Away in the Blood”: The Pentecostal
Medieval to the Modern Era Healing Revivals and the Barriers to Interracial Working-Class
Solidarity, 1940s-1960s
Benjamin Robinson, Southern Methodist University
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level)
White Dis-Possession: Making Estranged Subjects
Jessey Choo, Rutgers University, Presiding
Laura Lysen, Baylor University
April Hughes, Boston University To Starve or to Devour? A Theological Reckoning with Contemporary
Disaster and Calamity in Medieval China Food Labor
Katherine Alexander, University of Colorado Business Meeting:
Disaster and Calamity in Early Modern China
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, and Ken Estey, Brooklyn
Gregory Adam Scott, University of Manchester College, Presiding
Disaster and Calamity in Modern China
Responding:
James A. Benn, McMaster University A23-413 C
Business Meeting: Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, and Anna Sun, Kenyon Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit
College, Presiding Theme: Violence and Eastern Orthodox Christianity
A23-411 Convention Center-11A (Upper Level West)
Katya Tolstaya, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, Presiding
Christian Systematic Theology Unit Philip Dorroll, Wofford College
Theme: Becoming Creatures and Becoming Gods: Creatureliness From Srebrenica to ISIS: Comparing Theological Responses to Atrocity
and Theosis
Pieter G. R. De Villiers, University of the Free State
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM An Early Eastern Orthodox Rejection of Violence: The Case of
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level) Oecumenius from Isauria
Natalie Carnes, Baylor University, Presiding Paul Ladouceur, University of Toronto
Thomas Breedlove, Baylor University Orthodoxy and the Religious and Ethnic Other in Romania
The Grace of Becoming Creature: The “Thorny Flesh” of Gregory of Responding:
Nyssa
Fadi Nasr, Orthodox Youth Movement, Hazmieh, Lebanon
Olli-Pekka Vainio, University of Helsinki Business Meeting:
Deification as a Philosophical Problem
Brandon Gallaher, University of Exeter, Presiding
Elliot Rice, Laidlaw College
The Cruciform Doctrine of Theosis in Hans Urs von Balthasar’s Theo-
Drama A23-414
Comparative Religious Ethics Unit
Theme: Migration Ethics in Comparative Perspective
Shannon Dunn, Gonzaga University, Presiding
William A. Barbieri, Catholic University of America
Mobilizing Dignity: Migration Ethics, Human Dignity, and
Comparative Religious Ethics
Silas Allard, Emory University
Beyond Borders: The Case for Cross-Disciplinary Engagement on
Migration
Evangelical Studies Unit
A23-415 C Theme: New Varieties of Evangelicalism
Contemplative Studies Unit Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West)
Theme: Varieties of Contemplative Experiences: Mountains, Vincent Bacote, Wheaton College, Presiding
Music, and Memoirs
Douglas Bafford, Brandeis University
Evangelical Christianity and the Formation of a Multiracial South
Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West) Africa
Niki Clements, Rice University, Presiding Clifton Clarke, Fuller Theological Seminary
Linda Ceriello, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Black Evangelicals and the MAGA Movement
Descent from the Peak: Mystical Navigations of Paradox and Trauma David Kirkpatrick, James Madison University
on the Down-Climb Beneath the United States: Global Crime, Decolonization, and the
Maria Guarino, University of Virginia Latin American Evangelical Left
Musical Metanoia: Jazz Improvisation as Contemplative Practice Ronald Potter, Hinds Community College
Stephen Dawson, University of Lynchburg John M. Perkins and the Possibility of an Evangelical Political
Flipped Memoir: Reading and Writing Memoir as Contemplative Theology Today
Practices Thomas Seat, Princeton Theological Seminary
Business Meeting: Religion and Politics in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Assessing
Harold D. Roth, Brown University, and Judith Simmer-Brown, Connections between U.S. Evangelicals and Nigerian Pentecostals
Naropa University, Presiding The Evangelical Studies Group will be holding its business meeting
over breakfast, Saturday, November 23rd, at 7:00 AM at a nearby
restaurant TBD.
A23-416
Ecclesiological Investigations Unit
Theme: Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification: Impact
A23-418 #innovatingspiritualcare CUR
and Reception Innovations in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Unit
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Theme: Formation and Training in Contemporary Spiritual Care
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level) Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Miriam Haar, Lutheran World Federation, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Jakob Rinderknecht, University of the Incarnate Word Trace Haythorn, Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Decatur,
Receiving the Joint Declaration: A Test-Case in Bilateral and GA, Presiding
Multilateral Engagement Panelists:
Peter Folan, Boston College Margaret Lowe, Bridgewater State University
Getting on the Same Page: The Biblical Hermeneutic Operative in the Daniel Nuzum, Association of Clinical Pastoral Education, Cork,
Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification Ireland
Veli-Matti Karkkainen, Fuller Theological Seminary Anja Visser, University of Groningen
The Contribution to JDDJ of the New Interpretation of Luther’s
Theology and Its Potential for an Ecumenical Advancement Robin Pater, University of Groningen
Katherine Rand, Claremont School of Theology
Responding:
Monica Sanford, Rochester Institute of Technology
William G. Rusch, New York, NY
Wim Smeets, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre
Responding:
Duane Bidwell, Claremont School of Theology
Business Meeting:
Michael Skaggs, Brandeis University, Presiding
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International Development and Religion Unit Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
Theme: Religion, Development, and Humanitarian Aid - Part II Theme: Author-Meets-Critics: Cutcha Risling Baldy’s We Are
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Dancing for You: Native Feminisms and the Revitalization of
Women’s Coming-of-Age Ceremonies (University of Washington
Press, 2018)
John Rees, The University of Notre Dame Australia, Presiding Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Mike Clark, Global Aid Pro, Lindau, Germany Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level)
Achieving Aid Effectiveness through Localized Humanitarian
Diplomacy: Cultural and Normative Perspectives for Faith-Based Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara,
Organizations Presiding
Olivia Wilkinson, Joint Learning Initiative on Faith and Local Panelists:
Communities, and Emma Tomalin, University of Leeds Dana Lloyd, Washington University, St. Louis
Between Local Faith Actors and International Secular Actors for Abel Gomez, Syracuse University
Humanitarian Response in South Sudan
Natalie Avalos, University of Colorado
David King, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis Cuauhtémoc Peranda, University of California Riverside
Reshaping the Debates of Religion and International Development:
American Evangelicals and Global Population Control Responding:
Cutcha Risling Baldy, Humboldt State University
A23-420
Liberal Theologies and Open and Relational Theologies Unit
A23-423 H
and Theology of Martin Luther King, Jr. Unit North American Religions Unit
Theme: Non-Violent Theology: Power, Persuasion, and Peace Theme: Mountains, Whales, Oil, and Plastics: Religion and
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Matter in the Anthropocene
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level) Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level)
Larry Perry, National Museum of African American History and
Culture, Presiding Brandi Denison, University of North Florida, Presiding
Justin Heinzekehr, Goshen College Richard Callahan, Gonzaga University
The Convergence of Process and Peace Church Theologies through Rethinking Religious History in the Anthropocene by Way of the 19th
Personalism Century American Whaling Industry’s Oceanic Labors
Daniel Ott, Monmouth College Judith Ellen Brunton, University of Toronto
Naturalistic God Metaphors, Nonviolence, and Violence Narratives of Extraction: Empire, Land Use, and the Public Good in
the Imperial Oil Archives
Natalya Cherry, Brite Divinity School
The Influence of Personalism on Harkness and King, Their Pacifism, Matthew Smith, Northwestern University
and Their Persistence Eco-Religious Entanglements in the Age of Plastic(s): Probing the
Christian Coloniality of the Anthropocene
Responding:
Brennan Keegan, Randolph College
James Lawson, Los Angeles, CA
Contested Sacredness: The Struggle for Bears Ears
Responding:
Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dam
Monica Schaap Pierce, Fordham University
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Taught “without the Illusions of Men”: Marie Dentière on Christ and
Embodiment
A23-424 C A23-427
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Religion and Disability Studies Unit
Theme: Works-in-Progress
Theme: Candidates with Disability for Ritual Leadership, Shared
Space and Liberation, Shame and Relationality, Mental Illness
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) and Sanctity
Kirsten Sonkyo Oh, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Panelist: Convention Center-21 (Upper Level East)
James I. Higginbotham, Earlham College Mary Jo Iozzio, Boston College, Presiding
Business Meeting: Rebecca Spurrier, Columbia Theological Seminary

Eileen Campbell-Reed, Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Fit Bodies, Abled Minds, and Inaccessible Routes to Religious
and Lisa M. Cataldo, Fordham University, Presiding Leadership
Lily Kim, McMaster University
Disablism and Shared Space
A23-425 C Jessica Coblentz, Saint Mary’s College of California
Queer Studies in Religion Unit Sanctity, Sanity, and the Christian Life
Theme: Queer Lands and Stories Alison Downie, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM The Shame That Binds: Theology and Mental Illness
Kelly Stewart, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Andrea Allen, University of Toronto
A23-428 C
Call Them Ishmael: The Queering of Brazilian Evangelicalism by Religion and Economy Unit
Black LGBT Evangelicals Theme: Religious Affects of Capital
Rita Rodriguez, The University of Chicago Divinity School Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Anzaldúa y Foucault: Analytics, Genealogy, and Deconstruction of Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level)
Borderlands George Gonzalez, City University of New York, Presiding
Responding: Isaac Arten, Saint Louis University
Teresa Delgado, Iona College “A Matter of Profit and Loss Belonging to Another World”: Reality
Business Meeting: as Marketplace in Nineteenth-Century British Protestant Theological
Anthropology
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University, and Heather White,
University of Puget Sound, Presiding Timothy Burnside, Florida State University
Angel Economies: Neoliberal Religion and the User-Generated
Ordinary
A23-426 Rebecca Faulkner, Princeton University
Economic Thought of Muhammad Iqbal
Esra Tunc, University of California, Santa Barbara
Theme: Women and Women’s Voices in the Reformed Tradition Translation of Giving into Islamic Entrepreneurship in Corporate
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM America
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502 (Fifth Level) Matthew King, University of California, Riverside
John Thompson, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding Śrī Śrī Homo Economicus: Claiming Desire in the Tantric Frontiers
Amanda MacInnis-Hackney, University of Toronto of Capital
“The Word of God is Constantly before My Eyes”: The Primacy and Responding:
Unity of Scripture in the Writings of Early Protestant Women Devin Singh, Dartmouth College
Nathan Shannon, Torch Trinity Graduate University Business Meeting:
Margart Baxter’s Theology of Evil and Suffering
Daniel Vaca, Brown University, Presiding
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A23-429 Would I Walk Away from This Utopia? Engaging Le Guin’s The Ones
Who Walk Away from Omelas
Religion and Migration Unit and Secularism and Secularity
Responding:
Unit
Shelley Streeby, University of California, San Diego
Theme: Surveilling Muslims: Religion, Secularism, and Migration
Business Meeting:
Laura Ammon, Appalachian State University, and Emanuelle
Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level)
Burton, University of Illinois, Chicago, Presiding
Joseph Blankholm, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland
Secular Masculinities and Migratory Marital “Love Fraud” in
Contemporary France
A23-432 WK
Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Matt Sheedy, University of Manitoba
Emerging Ex-Muslim Identities in the Snares of the Intellectual Dark Theme: Teaching, Public Engagement, and Social Scientific
Web Research
M. Bilal Nasir, Northwestern University Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
FBI Surveillance, Suspicion, and Islamic Skepticism in Muslim Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level)
America Sara Williams, Emory University, Presiding
Responding: Krista Riley, Vanier College, and Leila Bdeir, Vanier College
Mona Oraby, Amherst College Teaching and Learning through Participatory Action Research: A Case
Study of Muslim College Students in Quebec
Rebecca Catto, Kent State University, Fern Elsdon-Baker,
A23-430 University of Birmingham, Stephen Jones, University of
Birmingham, and Carola Leicht, University of Kent
Religion and Politics Unit Sociology of Religion, Public Understanding of Science: Mutual
Theme: Religious Freedom and the U.S. Constitution Learning for Refined Framing and Measurement
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Valentina Cantori, University of Southern California
Convention Center-24B (Upper Level East) Mapping Sacred Others: American Muslims’ Cultures of Bridging in
American Civic Life
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University, Presiding
Katharine Batlan, University of Alberta, Augustana Campus
Uneasy Allies: Christian Amendment Attempts, Vietnam, Schools, and
Race in the 1960s
A23-433 C
Eric Stephen, Harvard University Religion in Europe Unit
The Neoliberal Turn in American Religious Liberty Jurisprudence: Theme: Religion and the Construction of European Identities
Intellectual Foundations and their Social, Political, and Legal Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Implications, 1990–Present
Kira Ganga Kieffer, Boston University
Jonathan Teubner, Australian Catholic University, Presiding
On Measles, Mumps, and Not Being a Sheep: The Anti-Vaxxer
Coalition of Believers Karin Neutel, University of Oslo
The Myth of a Christian Europe: The Bible as a Tool for European
Identity Construction in Recent Migration Debates
A23-431 C Richard Amesbury, Clemson University
Constructing “Religion”, Performing “the People”: Sovereignty and
Religion and Science Fiction Unit Populism in Germany and the United States
Theme: Languages of the Night: Ursula K. Le Guin as World (Un) Matthew Hotham, Ball State University
Builder and (Anti)Religious Thinker Bloody Beasts: Halal Butchering, Eid Sacrifice, and the Making of
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Muslim Monsters
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire M (Fourth Level) Peter O’Brien, Trinity University, and Arianna Siddiqui, Trinity
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University, Presiding University
David Aftandilian, Texas Christian University Islamophobia and Europhobia in Europe
Revealing Animal Presences: Animals and Religion in the Storytelling Business Meeting:
of Ursula K. Le Guin Elissa Cutter, Georgian Court University, Presiding
Douglas E. Cowan, University of Waterloo
“Fantasy Is True, of Course”: Thinking through the Fantastic with
Ursula K. Le Guin
Michael Ostling, Arizona State University
Words of Unbinding: Ursula K. Le Guin Tears down the Wall of
Language
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit and Women and
A23-434 Religion Unit
Theme: Women and Religio-Political Activism in the Latina/o
Religion in South Asia Unit Americas
Theme: Translating Traditions: Discursive Practices in Text and Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Performance Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level)
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Chris Tirres, DePaul University, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level) Ernesto Fiocchetto, Florida International University
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida, Presiding The Beginning of Madres de Plaza de Mayo in Mendoza Argentina:
Sucharita Adluri, Cleveland State University The Complex Roles of Catholicism and Women
Translating Devotion: The 0DΧLSUDYƘOD Commentaries on the Susana L. Gallardo, San Jose State University
7LUXYƘ\PRζL “I Never Left the Church”: Belonging and Resistance in Mexican
Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville American Catholicism
The Performance Script as Translation Process: Preparing to Dance Betsy Konefal, College of William and Mary, and Marjorie
Kalidasa’s Ritusamhara/Garland of Seasons Melville, former Maryknoll nun
Jesse Pruitt, University of Toronto Social Justice, Christian Revolution, and “Tyranny” in 1960s
Translating a God for the Nation: Etymology, Equivalence, and Tamil Guatemala: A Conversation with Marjorie Melville
Prose in Tiru. Vi. Ka.’s Murugan, or Beauty Responding:
Responding: Cecilia Titizano, Graduate Theological Union
Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
A23-437
A23-435 Science, Technology, and Religion Unit
Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit Theme: Is There a Future for Methodology in Science and
Theme: From Death to Eschatological Hope: Thematic, Stylistic, Religion?
and Sonic Analyses of Mexican Auteurs Alejandro G. Inarritu and Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Alfonso Cuaron Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level)
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Victoria Lorrimar, Trinity College Queensland
Rebecca Moody, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Presiding Science and Religion: Moving beyond the Credibility Strategy
Stephanie Addenbrooke Bean, Yale University Jaime Wright, University of Edinburgh
Toward Tomorrow: Migration, Borders, and Eschatological Hope in Making Space for the Methodological Mosaic: The Future of the Field
Alfonso Cuarón’s Children of Men of Science and Religion
Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton James Stump, BioLogos, Grand Rapids, MI
Life and Death are Biutiful: Alejandro G. Iñárritu as Auteur Common Nouns without Essences: Reeves and the Language of Science
Joseph Kickasola, Baylor University and Religion
Sonic, Simulative, Sacred: Multisensory Aural Experience in the Films Paul Allen, Corpus Christi College
of Alejandro González Iñárritu The Third Way: Against Essentialism and Anti-Essentialism in Science
and Religion
Responding:
Josh Reeves, Samford University
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Sikh Studies Unit Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Theme: Authenticity and Plurality in Sikh Literature Theme: The Devil and the Demons: Neoliberal Theology in the
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Work of Adam Kotsko
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level) Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University, Presiding Marriott Marquis-Presidio 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Nikky Singh, Colby College Stephen Keating, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Guru Nanak: The Songster Poet Panelists:
Gurbeer Singh, University of California, Riverside An Yountae, California State University, Northridge
The Claim for Authenticity in the Sikh Tradition: The Appropriation Jared Rodriguez, Northwestern University
of Puratan
Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University
Business Meeting: Maxwell Kennel, McMaster University
Michael Hawley, Mount Royal University, Presiding Responding:
Adam Kotsko, North Central College
A23-439 Business Meeting:
Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College, and Adam Kotsko, North
Space, Place, and Religion Unit Central College, Presiding
Theme: The Undoing of Place: Spatialization of the Aftermath
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level) A23-442
David Simonowitz, Pepperdine University, Presiding Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
Jeanne Halgren Kilde, University of Minnesota Theme: Pasts and Futures in the Present
Church Ruin Photography: Interpreting the Meaning of Decay Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Andrew Klumpp, Southern Methodist University Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level)
The Burning of Holland: Faith, Fire, and International Efforts to
Rebuild a Religious Community Eleanor Craig, Harvard University, Presiding
Heather Major, University of Glasgow
Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities
“It’s Aye Been”: A Sojourner’s Perspective on the Relationship between
Saving Sacred Space in the Face of Economic Disaster
Past, Present, and Future in Scottish Churches
Mary Emily Duba, University of Chicago
Jeannine Hill Fletcher, Fordham University
Lived Noplace: Dangers and Possibilities for Theology and Religious
Ghosts of Our Past Informing Our Present
Studies
Sam Mickey, University of San Francisco
Politics for the Anthropocene: From Anthropocentric to Anthropocosmic
A23-440 #islamaar Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon, University of Pardubice
An Image for the Anthropocene
Study of Islam Unit
Theme: Reconsidering Sufi and Shi’i Histories: Text, Space, and
Embodiment
A23-443 C
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level) Tillich: Issues in Theology, Religion, and Culture Unit
Marcia Hermansen, Loyola University, Chicago, Presiding Theme: Black Theology and Paul Tillich
Andrew McLaren, Columbia University
Authorship, Belief, Identity: Was Ibn A’tham al-Kufi’s Kitab al-Futuh Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East)
a Shi’i History? Jawanza Eric Clark, Manhattan College, Presiding
Ilona Gerbakher, Columbia University S. Kyle Johnson, Boston College
“The Saint in Baghdad Is Like the Saint on a Toilet”: Finding Sufism The Demonic in Paul Tillich and Black Theology
in the ‘Abbasid City, 950–1150 A.D. Paul Dafydd Jones, University of Virginia
Fizza Joffrey, University of Toronto The Impatience of the Risen Christ: On Paul Tillich’s The Socialist
Probing the Other “Other”: A Critical Survey of Shi’i Self- Decision and James Cone’s Black Theology and Black Power
Flagellation Ritual Studies Michele Watkins, University of San Diego
Responding: The Gifts and Curses of 20th Century Theology: Paul Tillich as an Unfit
Rose Aslan, California Lutheran University Conversation Partner in Black Existentialist Theology
Business Meeting:
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University, Presiding
Yogācāra Studies Unit
A23-444 Theme: Text Discussion Panel: The 0DKƘ\ƘQDVǍWUƘODβNƘUD
Western Esotericism Unit Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Theme: Esoteric Exchanges: Indigenous and Latin Cultures in the C. John Powers, Deakin University, Presiding
Americas
Panelists:
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level) Constance Kassor, Lawrence University
Egil Asprem, Stockholm University, Presiding Jay Garfield, Smith College
Rudy V. Busto, University of California, Santa Barbara Sonam Thakchoe, University of Tasmania
Mexico’s Esoteric Virgin: Miguel Sánchez’s Imagen de la Virgen Dan Arnold, University of Chicago
María, Madre de Dios de Guadalupe Eyal Aviv, George Washington University
Lisa Poirier, DePaul University Jonathan Gold, Princeton University
Secrecy, Identity, and the Ghost Dance of 1890 Business Meeting:
Stefan Sanchez, Rice University Joy Brennan, Kenyon College, and Roy Tzohar, Tel-Aviv
Losing the Soul: Gloria Anzaldúa’s Susto and Her Metaphysics of Pain University, Presiding
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Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit Chinese Christianities Seminar
Theme: Consumption for Transcendence: Foodways, Diet, and Theme: Beyond Chinese Christianities
Drugs in Yoga Practice Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Indigo H (Second Level)
Alexander Chow, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Seth Powell, Harvard University, Presiding
Erica Siu Mui Lee, University of Toronto
Patricia Sauthoff, University of Alberta Jingjiao Inscription of “Three-One Wondrous Being/Body” on the Xian
Water As Elixir of Longevity: A Rasāyana Practice from the Stele: Theological Implications and Ecumenical Significance
Ānandakanda
Yucheng Bai, Duke University
Jonathan Dickstein, University of California, Santa Barbara In Search of Sublimity: Wu Yaozong’s Overseas Religious Education
Before They Were Food: Wasting and Weaponizing Animals in Yoga and His Collaboration with Communism
Gastropolitics
Melissa Inouye, University of Auckland
Nirinjan Khalsa, Loyola Marymount University In the World, But of China? In China, But of the World? Charismatic
Creating Healthy, Happy, Holy Yogis through Vegetarianism, Universalism in True Jesus Church Communities
Ayurveda, and Kundalini Yoga
Responding:
Christa Kuberry, Yoga Alliance, Arlington, VA
Francis Ching-Wah Yip, Chinese University of Hong Kong
American Yoga and the Substance of Substances
Christopher Patrick Miller, Loyola Marymount University
Yogic Foodways at Kaivalyadham: Achieving Liberation through Bio-
Moral Consumption
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Responding: Contextualizing the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Seminar
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Oregon State University Theme: Setting the Agenda: Contextualizing Clergy Sexual Abuse
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua C (Third Level)
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina,
Wilmington, and Anya Foxen, California Polytechnic State Brian Clites, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding
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Heidi Ann Campbell, Texas A&M University, and Emily Pfender,
Villanova University P23-404
Studying the Victim Narratives of the Catholic Abuse Scandal through
Internet Memes European Society of Women in Theological Research
Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University Theme: Post-International ESWTR Meeting Conversation:
The Catholic Sex Abuse Crisis and the Relations between Church and Brainstorming from North America
State Saturday, 6:30 PM–8:30 PM
Amy Carr, Western Illinois University Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Level)
Sacramental Desecration: The Spiritual Heart of the Matter
Susan Reynolds, Emory University Saturday, 7:00 PM and Later
A Lay Spring? Examining Grassroots Practices of Resistance to
Clericalism
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Theme: Liturgy
Origen and Origen Reception Seminar Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM
Theme: Origen’s Biblical Exegesis Marriott Marquis-Pacific 19 (First Level)
Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan, Presiding
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Alfons Fürst, University of Münster International Members Reception
Philosophical Exegesis as a Way of Life in Early Christianity Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Sara Contini, University of Bristol Convention Center-6F (Upper Level West)
A “Worthy” Understanding of God: Origen’s against Celsus and the Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University, Presiding
Homilies on Psalms
Grant Gasse, University of Notre Dame
Origen and Myth: The Development of an Unbiblical Category A23-501 G
Business Meeting:
Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession Reception
Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Aarhus University, and Peter Saturday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Martens, Saint Louis University, Presiding
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P23-501
Karl Barth Society of North America
Société Internationale d’Études sur Alfred Loisy
Theme: Karl Barth’s Epistle to the Romans
Theme: By those Who Wrote Them: Further Studies on Roman
Saturday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Catholic Modernism
Convention Center-17A (Mezzanine Level) Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:45 PM
Keith Johnson, Wheaton College, Presiding Marriott Marquis-Oceanside (South Tower - First Level)
In honor of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Barth’s The Elizabeth Huddleston, University of Dayton, National Institute for
Epistle to the Romans, the Karl Barth Society of North America is Newman Studies, Presiding
holding a multi-year series of sessions dedicated to this book and its
legacy. For the 2019 meeting, the focus is on Barth’s discussion of Danny Praet, Ghent University
Romans 5-8. On Science, Religion and Politics during the Modernist Era
(2018), ed. Danny Praet and Corinne Bonnet
Mitchell Mallary, University of Saint Andrews
An Apocalyptic Paul within Judaism: Bridging the Gap between Karl Jeffrey Morrow, Seton Hall University
Barth and the Guild of Second Temple Jewish Studies On Alfred Loisy and Modern Biblical Studies (2019)
Sarah Stewart-Kroeker, University of Geneva Annelies Lannoy, Ghent University
An Eco-Theological Reading of Karl Barth on Romans 8:19-23 On La Comparison est la Lumière de l’Histoire. La
Correspondence entre Franz Cumont et Alfred Loisy (1908–
Andrew Peterson, Princeton Theological Seminary 1940) (2019), Annelies Lannoy, Corinne Bonnet, Danny Praet
Sanctification and Moral Extrinsicism in Barth’s Romans
Commentary
College Theology Society Reception
P23-505 Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:30 PM
Marriott Marquis-Presidio 2 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of Eastern
Christian Studies and AAR’s Eastern Orthodox Studies
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Theme: Vespers - Evening Prayer in the (Byzantine) Orthodox Film: [the listening heart]
Tradition
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502 (Fifth Level)
Michele Stanback, Union Theological Seminary, and Kristian
All are welcome to join in this traditional liturgical service, common Petersen, Old Dominion University, Presiding
to both Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine-Rite Catholic Churches,
which inaugurates the Lord’s Day by commemorating Christ’s Written and directed by storäe michele
resurrection. Composed of psalms, hymns and litanies, and marked by [the listening heart] is an Afro-Native Futuristic film about self-
the symbols of incense and candlelight, the service is entirely chanted love and deep listening, bringing to life an original story grounded
(in English, with some Spanish, Greek and Slavonic). in Mayan and Yoruba cosmologies. Our protagonist, named after
the Mayan Goddess Ix Chel, is a child healer who searches for the
meaning of love. This story follows a common paradigm of women
A23-502 W who are hurt when going against social norms — but in this film,
reclaim their voices through self-healing.
Presidential Address — “And Are We Not of Interest
to Each Other?”: A Blueprint for the Public Study of
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Saturday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM Film: Muslimah’s Guide to Marriage
Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East) Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara, Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level)
Presiding Muslimah’s Guide to Marriage (2016) is the story of Muslimah
In addition to its traditional goal of fostering Mohammad, a young African-American Muslim woman from
excellence in the academic study of religion, the Inglewood, California. The narrative centers around the events
AAR’s recently revised mission statement includes a during Muslimah’s Iddah (waiting period of separation), where in
new goal of enhancing the public study of religion. only one week her divorce from her husband Musa will be finalized
But what is the public study of religion? How might and official. She wants to reconcile the marriage before it’s too late
we collectively (and inevitably imperfectly) define since she knows that divorce will have negative social consequences
Laurie Patton it? This AAR address will offer a blueprint. I suggest within her local Muslim community, and will be especially upsetting
that such a public study of religion involves a renewed for her observant father. This humorous romantic comedy provides a
curiosity about, and disciplined and ethical reflection on, four unique vision of Black Muslim life in a South Central Los Angeles
things: 1) the nature of our scholarly contexts; 2) the nature of our community. Writer and Director Aminah Bakeer Abdul-Jabbaar both
scholarly publics; 3) the nature of power and privilege in the study disrupts stereotypical Hollywood images of Muslims and broadens
of religion; 4) the nature of labor in the study of religion. I will use the spectrum of Muslim American cultural production, which has
theory in the study of religion, philosophy of the public sphere, largely set aside the experiences of Black Muslims.
and poetry to draw the blueprint. As a way of gesturing to another
kind of collective that moves beyond the “magisterial voice of the
single leader,” our time together will involve AAR voices other
than my own. I end with an exhortation to a newly energetic and
different kind of curiosity as fundamental to our work as public
scholars. In her poem, “Ars Poetica #100: I Believe,” Elizabeth
Alexander ends with a query: “. . . and are we not of interest to
each other?”
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Film: Revolution of the Heart: The Dorothy Day Story
Premiere and Panel Discussion
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Applied Religious Studies Breakfast
Sunday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
Martin Doblmeier, Journey Films, Presiding
From Emmy award-winning filmmaker Martin Doblmeier comes a
new documentary that explores the life of one of the most remarkable Cristine Hutchison-Jones, Harvard University, Presiding
religious figures of the 20th-century — Catholic social activist Dorothy AAR members who apply their degrees to work outside of the
Day. The film examines her early years writing for communist academy, or students who are interested in diverse career paths are
newspapers, befriending Eugene O’Neill and struggling with love. But welcome to meet and greet each other at this breakfast hosted by the
her conversion to the Catholic faith changed everything. Day went AAR’s Applied Religious Studies Committee.
on to co-foundered the Catholic Worker Movement that included
homes of hospitality for the poor, and The Catholic Worker newspaper
that placed her in the midst of the most important social and political
events of her era. She was a traditional Catholic, grandmother to nine
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children and a constant target of the FBI. AAR Annual Business Meeting
The film features interviews with biographer Robert Ellsberg, actor/ Sunday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM
activist Martin Sheen, granddaughters Kate and Martha Hennessy,
writer Joan Chittester, Sojourners’ editor Jim Wallis, public theologian
Cornel West and others. Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College, Presiding
The film is being scheduled for broadcast on PBS stations for March Join the AAR Board of Directors for a continental breakfast and
2020 for Women’s History Month. a brief business meeting.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Martin Doblmeier is founder of Journey Films in Alexandria, VA.
He has produced more than 30 award-winning films on topics of
religion, faith and spirituality including: BONHOEFFER, The Power Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM
of Forgiveness, CHAPLAINS, The Reinhold Niebuhr Story, The Howard
Thurman Story — all premiered at past AAR events.
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P23-504 Graduate Student Committee Business Meeting
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Sunday, 9:00 AM–9:30 AM
Religion Reception Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level)
Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM Rachel Toombs, Baylor University, Presiding
Convention Center-6C (Upper Level West) Attention graduate students! We will be holding our annual business
Come join us for drinks and dessert as we welcome the new meeting in the Student Lounge. We encourage you to attend the
director of the Wabash Center and celebrate the retirement of our meeting, connect with your regional AAR student directors, and
outgoing Director, Dr. Nadine Pence. Meet past, present, and future share your requests, concerns and/or suggestions for AAR’s 2020
participants of our workshops, colloquies, consultants, and grants. Annual Meeting with the Graduate Student Committee. If there are
Learn about current and future programming, along with resources items you want to be sure are discussed, email Rachel Toombs, AAR
and opportunities for teaching and learning. Student Director, before the meeting: rstoombs@gmail.com.
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Journal of the American Academy of Religion ( JAAR)
Reception for Authors and Board Members
Marriott Marquis-AAR Suite
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LGBTIQ Scholars/Scholars of LGBTIQ Studies Reception
Convention Center-6E (Upper Level West)
LGBTIQ scholars, scholars of LGBTIQ studies, and friends are
invited to a reception. Come network, see old friends, and make new
ones! Sponsored by the Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender,
Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-101 PK
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and
P24-102 Applied Religious Studies Committee
Theme: Working in Religious Studies: A Discussion on the State
Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and of the Field
Religion Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theme: Teaching with Digital Media Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 2 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Sunday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM Rachel Lindsey, Saint Louis University, and Emily Mace, Lake
Convention Center-22 (Upper Level East) Forest, IL, Presiding
This session will explore a range of teaching contexts - residential and What do we mean when we say we work in religious studies? The
online - in which digital media is utilized. Session leaders will explore changing nature of professional life within the academy and the
particular methods for effective use of digital media in classroom ever-challenging job market are pushing scholars to pursue career
teaching and learning. options in new relationship to and outside of academia. This session
For additional information, see: wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/ brings together representatives of various communities within the
aar-sbl-2019/teaching-with-digital-media. AAR to discuss changes within the field of religious studies that are
leading many people to pursue professional activities in less structured,
Panelists: more creative ways. Panelists will also consider the unique pressures
Ralph Watkins, Columbia Theological Seminary that members of various marginalized communities at the AAR
Elizabeth Drescher, Santa Clara University face, and will discuss resources these groups would like to see from
departments, schools, and the AAR to support them in exploring and
Katherine Turpin, Iliff School of Theology pursuing diverse, just and sustainable career opportunities both within
Jaime Wright, Santa Clara University and beyond the academy.
Panelists:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Benae Beamon, Boston University

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Carolyn Roncolato, Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, IL
Colloquium on Violence and Religion
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Theme: Mimesis and Sacrifice: Applying Girard’s Mimetic Theory
Across the Disciplines A24-102
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:00 AM Teaching Against Islamophobia: Lessons and Questions
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level) Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Grant Kaplan, Saint Louis University, Presiding Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level)
Marcia Pally, New York University Caleb Elfenbein, Grinnell College, Presiding
Contemporary Notions of Sacrifice: Suicide Bomber or Social Glue?
This roundtable session will reflect on how members of the AAR
Anna Mercedes, College of Saint Benedict / Saint John’s across a broad array of fields of specialization can teach against
University Islamophobia in a variety of educational contexts, and how the AAR
Does Christ Resist or Bow Out? Feminist Theology, Violence, and can support their pedagogical work. The roundtable discussion will
René Girard include reflections from AAR leadership and participants in the 2018
Wolfgang Palaver, University of Innsbruck “Teaching Against Islamophobia” workshop (co-sponsored with the
Sacrifice Between West and East: René Girard, Simone Weil, and Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Religion)
Mahatma Gandhi on Violence and Non-Violence and the 2018 “Countering Islamophobia” workshop.
David Pan, University of California, Irvine Panelists:
Immanuel Kant on Sacrifice and Morality Todd Green, Luther College
Ilia Delio, Villanova University Alice Hunt, American Academy of Religion
Suffering and Sacrifice in an Unfinished Universe: A Challenge for Sajida Jalalzai, Trinity University
“Techno-sapiens”
Oluwatomisin Oredein, Texas Christian University
Heather White, University of Puget Sound
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Marko Geslani, University of South Carolina
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Status of Women in the Profession Committee Erin Runions, Pomona College
Theme: Care as a Form of Resistance Business Meeting:
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Elizabeth Ann Pritchard, Bowdoin College, J. Barton Scott,
Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East) University of Toronto, David Walker, University of California,
Santa Barbara, and Sean McCloud, University of North
Nami Kim, Spelman College, Presiding Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding
Building on our 2018 Special Topics Forum, the Status of Women in
the Profession Committee’s forum this year will continue to address
care as a form of resistance, especially in the context of women
scholars who express rage and its accompanying risks, by looking at
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four specific areas: aftercare (once someone has taken a great risk); Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Chinese Religions
long-term career care (how does someone prepare and keep going Unit and Daoist Studies Unit
through the long haul); collective care (how do we care collectively Theme: Performing Images: Ritual, Art, and Agency in Chinese
rather than self-care); and informed and planned risks (taking risks in Religions
an informed manner and planning for them).
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University
Aftercare Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 402 (Fourth Level)
Noelle Giuffrida, Ball State University, Presiding
C. Vanessa White, Catholic Theological Union
Long-Term Career Care Aaron Reich, Saint Joseph’s University
From Carved Statues to Living Images: Rites of Consecration in
Joanne Rodríguez, Hispanic Theological Initiative, Princeton, NJ Contemporary Taiwan
Collective Care
Yilin Wendland-Liu, Grand Valley State University
Kelly J. Baker, Women in Higher Education Visualizing the Emperor’s Dream: Zhong Kui’s Divinity and Efficacy
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Informed and Planned Risks in Ming and Qing Theatre
Michael Naparstek, University of Wisconsin
A24-104 CK From This Becomes Real: Emergence of the True Form in Daoist
Ritual and Image
Teaching and Learning Committee and Critical Theory and Jingyu Liu, Harvard University
Discourses on Religion Unit and Cultural History of the Manifesting Gods: Textual Images and Performing Pantheons in the
Study of Religion Unit Buddhist Water-Land Dharma Assembly
Theme: Theory and Method 2.0: Reimagining the Canon Responding:
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Shih-shan Huang, Rice University
Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East) Business Meeting:
Anthony Petro, Boston University, Presiding Jessey Choo, Rutgers University, and Elena Valussi, Loyola
This roundtable stages a conversation about the canon of theory University, Chicago, Presiding
and method in the study of religion: how we describe it, how we
critique it, and how we might experiment with it as form. In a
lightning round style session, each presenter nominates a text that
conceptually reorients something about “theory and method in the
study of religion.” We define text broadly — as prose, poetry, image,
music, performance, and more — and encourage presentations
that experiment in both thought and form. But we also set clear
parameters for the presentations themselves. Each presentation will
do the following: (a) introduce the nomination; (b) describe its critical
agency relative to the historiographical landscape of “theory and
method”; (c) argue about why the intervention staged by this text is
important for the field of Religious Studies now. Implicit within these
parameters are question at the core of this panel: If we diagnose “the
canon” as the problem, which canon are we talking about? And after
we have diagnosed a problematic canon, what difference do we seek to
mark or achieve in our alternative?
Panelists:
Eden Consenstein, Princeton University
Amanda Lucia, University of California, Riverside
Elizabeth Pérez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Lucia Hulsether, Yale University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-108
Cognitive Science and Religion Unit and Mysticism Unit
A24-106 C Theme: Cognitive Science of Mysticism
Baha’i Studies Unit Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Theme: Poets and Clerics, Prophets and Gurus: Responses to the Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, Presiding
Emergence of the Babi and Baha’i Religions
Abdulla Galadari, Khalifa University
Mysticism and Low Latent Inhibition: A Neuropsychological Approach
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level) to Mystics’ Fascination in Esoteric Knowledge
Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend, Presiding Jed Forman, University of California, Santa Barbara
Alyssa Gabbay, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Out of Sight: Yogic Perception and Extramission
Poetry as Divine Portent: Classical Persian Verses and Legitimation in Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, California Polytechnic State
the Early Babi and Baha’i Communities University, San Luis Obispo
Sholeh Quinn, University of California, Merced Mystics and the Mind: The Cognitive Science behind Psychosis,
Polemic and Dialogue: Karim Khan Kirmani on the Kitab-i Iqan of Psychedelics, and Traditional Mystical Experiences
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Stephen Lambden, University of California, Merced
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to the Elevated Claims of Sayyid ‘Ali Muhammad Shirazi, “the Bab”
(1819–1850) Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Roland Faber, Claremont School of Theology Theme: Teaching Comparison
Baha’u’llah and the Gurus: Globalization of the Avataric Principle Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
and the Unity of Religions at the Turn of the 20th Century Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West)
Business Meeting: Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College, Presiding
Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend, and Susan Panelists:
Maneck, Jackson State University, Presiding Ann Taves, University of California, Santa Barbara
Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas
A24-107 CA Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University
Nikolas Hoel, Northeastern Illinois University
Buddhism in the West Unit
Grant Potts, Austin Community College
Theme: Recovering Pasts, Imagining Futures: A Roundtable
Conversation about New Books on Buddhism in the West Business Meeting:
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Ivette Vargas-O’Bryan, Austin College, and Oliver Freiberger,
University of Texas, Presiding
Kim Lam, Deakin University, Presiding
Panelists: A24-110 C
Duncan Williams, University of Southern California Hinduism Unit
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida Theme: Making Home, Marking Space: Negotiating Local,
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Notre Dame of Maryland University Global, and Spatial Identities in Contemporary Diaspora
Responding: Hinduisms
Jane Naomi Iwamura, University of the West Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Erik Braun, University of Virginia Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East)
Business Meeting: George Pati, Valparaiso University, Presiding
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Notre Dame of Maryland University, Saran Suebsantiwongse, Cambridge University
and Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding The Rise of Hindu Spiritual Tourism in Central Javanese Villages
Knut Axel Jacobsen, University of Bergen
Sacralisation of Space and Hindu Pilgrimage Sites in Europe
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Diana Dimitrova, University of Montreal Joseph Hill, University of Alberta
Bridging Continents: Radhasoami Centers in North America Wrapping Authority: Women Leaders in a Sufi Movement in Dakar,
Jeremy Saul, Mahidol University Senegal
Hindu Devotion in Contemporary Thai Practice: The Indian Mystique Ula Taylor, University of California, Berkeley, Facilitator
Responding: Responding:
Tracy Pintchman, Loyola University, Chicago Kathryn M. Kueny, Fordham University
Business Meeting: Business Meeting:
Patton Burchett, College of William and Mary, and Shubha Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University, and Saadia
Pathak, American University, Presiding Yacoob, Williams College, Presiding
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Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit Kierkegaard, Religion, and Culture Unit
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics: Walking to Magdalena: Personhood Theme: Kierkegaard on Alterity: Fear, Difference, and Our Shared
and Place in Tohono O’odham Songs, Sticks, and Stories (University of Humanity, Part II
Nebraska Press, 2019) Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level)
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level) Charles K. Bellinger, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Gabriel Estrada, California State University, Long Beach, Presiding Myka H. Lahaie, Durham University
Panelist: The Role of Creation Ex Nihilo in Kierkegaard’s Approach to Love,
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College Otherness, and Difference
Responding: David Dunning, Dublin City University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Alterity, the Middle Term, and the Self: Working out Love in Søren
Suzanne J. Crawford O’Brien, Pacific Lutheran University Kierkegaard with the Help of Jean-Luc Marion
Michael McNally, Carleton College
Knut Alfsvåg, VID Specialized University
Greg Johnson, University of Colorado Kierkegaard on Indiscriminate Love
Business Meeting: Bryan Ellrod, Emory University
Gabriel Estrada, California State University, Long Beach, The Self as Other: Anti-Climacus’s Insight for the American
Presiding Immigration Crisis
Business Meeting:
A24-112 #aarigw SC Marcia C. Robinson, Syracuse University, and Lee Barrett,
Lancaster Theological Seminary, Presiding
Islam, Gender, Women Unit
Theme: New Directions in the Field of Islam and Gender
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Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level) Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and La
Justine Howe, Case Western Reserve University, Presiding Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion
This workshop session focuses on new directions in the field of Islam Theme: Climate, Justice, and the Displaced: The Land and Legal
and gender, organized around four pre-circulated articles and book Violence
chapters. Each table will focus on one paper and bring together the Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
author, a facilitator, and interested readers. A broader discussion Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level)
among all participants will finish the session. Attendees should choose
Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, and Jeremy V.
and sign up for one of the four tables in advance and read the paper
Cruz, St. John’s University, New York, Presiding
for discussion at that table prior to the session (accessible through the
AAR website). Please contact Justine Howe (justine.howe@case.edu) to Theresa A. Yugar, California State University, Los Angeles
obtain access to the sign-up web form. U.S. Latinx Environmental Grassroots Movements
Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College Yohana Junker, Graduate Theological Union
Prolegomenon to Feminist Philosophy of Islam Interweaving: Environmental Change and the Poetics of Eco-Art
Martin Nguyen, Fairfield University, Facilitator Matthew Elia, Duke University
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina From Mestizaje to Cimarronaje: Afro-Latinx Ecologies and the
Murder, Honor, and Culture: Mediatized Debates on Muslims and Ethics of Climate Migration
Domestic Violence Business Meeting:
Kayla Renée Wheeler, Grand Valley State University, Facilitator Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, Sammy Alfaro,
Ali Altaf Mian, University of Florida Grand Canyon Theological Seminary, Jeremy V. Cruz, St. John’s
Genres of Desire: The Erotic in Deobandi Islam University, New York, and Lauren Frances Guerra, Loyola
Marymount University, Presiding
Ash Geissinger, Carleton University, Facilitator
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-117 C
Philosophy of Religion Unit
A24-115 (=S24-113) Theme: Sylvia Wynter and Philosophy of Religion
Middle Eastern Christianity Unit and SBL Biblical Exegesis Convention Center-17A (Mezzanine Level)
From Eastern Orthodox Perspectives Unit
Danube Johnson, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Biblical Interpretation and Middle Eastern Christianity
David Kline, University of Tennessee
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Autopoiesis and Auto-Religion: Sylvia Wynter’s Philosophy of Religion
Marika Rose, University of Winchester
Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University, Presiding Black Magic: Wynter, Modernity, and Disenchantment
Stephen J. Davis, Yale University Anthony Paul Smith, La Salle University
Christian Arabic Biblical Commentaries in the Manuscript Library at Genres of Theodicy after God and Man
the Monastery of the Syrians (Wādī al-1DΛUǍQ, Egypt)
Michael Jimenez, Fuller Theological Seminary
Elie Dannaoui, University of Balamand Wynter and the Latinx Decolonial Project
The Arabic Text of the L2211 Greek-Arabic Lectionary: Textual and
Liturgical Value Jared Rodriguez, Northwestern University
The Quantum of Wynter’s Religion: From Exegetics to Decoherence in
Janet A. Timbie, The Catholic University of America the Philosophy of Religion
Scriptural Exegesis in Coptic: Text-Based Homilies for Different
Audiences Responding:
Anna Williams, Saint Louis University Amaryah Armstrong, Vanderbilt University
A Secret and Spoken Sign: The Divine Remza in the Homilies of Business Meeting:
Narsai
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Thomas A. Lewis, Brown University, and Jonathon Kahn, Vassar

Elizabeth Marteijn, University of Edinburgh College, Presiding
The Politics of Interpretation: Reading the Bible in the Palestinian
Countryside
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A24-116 CA Political Theology Unit and Theology and Religious
Reflection Unit
North American Religions Unit Theme: Catherine Keller’s Political Theology of the Earth (Columbia
Theme: Race, Gender, and Religion in Muslim America: A University Press, 2018)
Conversation with Three Authors Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East)
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) Inese Radzins, Pacific School of Religion, Presiding
Kambiz GhaneaBassiri, Reed College, Presiding Panelists:
Panelists: Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary
Sylvia Chan-Malik, Rutgers University Clayton Crockett, University of Central Arkansas
Harold Morales, Morgan State University Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University
Edward E. Curtis, Indiana University - Purdue University, Laurel C. Schneider, Vanderbilt University
Indianapolis
Filipe Maia, Pacific School of Religion
Business Meeting:
Responding:
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico, and Pamela
Catherine Keller, Drew University
Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding
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Practical Theology Unit Religion and Public Schools: International Perspectives
Theme: Critically Engaging Bonnie Miller McLemore, ed. The Unit
Wiley-Blackwell Reader in Practical Theology (2019) Theme: Re-Examining the Outcomes of Religious Education
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Jenny Berglund, Stockholm University, Presiding
Presiding Alexander Hendra Dwi Asmara, Fordham University
Panelists: “From Faceless to Face-to-Face Relation”: Live-In as a Model of
Shantelle Weber, University of Stellenbosch Interreligious Education
Clare Watkins, University of Roehampton Kate Soules, Boston College
Hendrik Pieter de Roest, Protestant Theological University A Change in Perspective: Turning from the Failures of Education
about Religion in the United States to an Exploration of the Successes
Faustino Cruz, Fordham University
Arto Kallioniemi, University of Helsinki
Responding: Developing Religious Education in a Globalizing World: Societal
Bonnie Miller-McLemore, Vanderbilt University Perspectives
Business Meeting: Marie von der Lippe, University of Bergen
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Presiding Comment
Business Meeting:
A24-120 C Michael Waggoner, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Religion and Politics Unit
Theme: Veterans, War, and Militarization A24-122 CK
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Ricoeur Unit
Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level) Theme: The Just University: Paul Ricoeur and the Hope of Higher
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University, Presiding Education
Ben Suitt, Boston University Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Religious Identity, Moral Injury, and Post-9/11 Veterans in the US Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level)
Armed Forces Jeffrey F. Keuss, Seattle Pacific University, Presiding
Rosemary Kellison, University of West Georgia Howard Pickett, Washington and Lee University
“Spiritual Fitness” and Individual Responsibility in the Contemporary Doing Time and Narrative: Teaching in (and out of ) Prisons with
U.S. Military Paul Ricoeur’s Philosophy of Education
Sara Jaye Hart, Humboldt State University Daniel Boscaljon, University of Iowa
Semper Fidelis: The Popular Arts of the Challenge Coin, USMC Fallible Man and Just Pedagogy: Instruction, Evaluation, and
Attire, and Combat Memoir Development
Timothy Burnside, Florida State University Laura Schmidt Roberts, Fresno Pacific University
“Soldiers of the Soil”: The Ecology of Total War in Rural Amish Practical Formation: Teaching Critical Thinking via Ricoeur’s
Country Hermeneutical Model
Business Meeting: Michael LeChevallier, University of Chicago
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University, and Rachel Scott, Teaching and Learning in Just Institutions: A Ricoeurean Analysis
Virginia Tech, Presiding Robert Vosloo, Stellenbosch University
Wounded Memory and a Pedagogy of Hope: Engaging Ricoeur within
the Context of Contested and Conflicting Pasts
Business Meeting:
Glenn Whitehouse, Florida Gulf Coast University, and W. David
Hall, Centre College, Presiding
Scriptural Reasoning Unit
A24-123 (=S24-120) W Theme: Vox Adam, Vox Dei: An Abrahamic Dialogue
Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit and Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
SBL Contextual Biblical Studies Unit and SBL Ideological
Ashleigh Elser, Hampden-Sydney College, Presiding
Criticism Unit
Mark James, Hunter College
Theme: Unexamined Contexts and Public Entanglements Names, Reason, and Power: Genesis 2:19-23 in Patristic Exegesis
Arielle Korman, Columbia University
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua A (Third Level) Nefesh Chaya/Chava: Naming and Dominion in Jewish Responses to
James Grimshaw, Carroll University, Presiding Genesis 2:18-20
Amanda DiMiele, Yale University Abdul Latif, Columbia University
Contextualizing White Womanhood: Rethinking Method in Feminist Teaching the Names: Primordial Appellation and Its Ramifications in
Theology and Ethics Qur’an 2:31
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary Business Meeting:
Speciesism as a Hidden Context for Biblical Interpretation Mark James, Hunter College, and Deborah Barer, Towson
Karen Williams, Toronto School of Theology University, Presiding
Vulnerability Be Damned: Compulsory Able-Bodiedness in Pauline
Scholarship
Emily Askew, Lexington Theological Seminary
Affirming Madness as an Unexpected Context in Mark 5:1-20:
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Reflections on Jesus, the Academy, and the Structural Sin of “Sanism”

Theme: Workshop on Effective Grading
David Lambert, University of North Carolina
The Problem of Interiority in Biblical Interpretation Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
A24-124 CAH Jane Webster, Barton College
Schleiermacher Unit Peer Grading of Participation
Theme: What’s Next in Eco-Theologies? Christian Traditions Kiara Jorgenson, Saint Olaf College
Working toward Sustainable Living: A Roundtable Discussion Humanizing Grading: Deepening Critical Written Reflection through
Ongoing Peer-Review in First-Year Undergraduate Religion Courses
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire E (Fourth Level) Jessica Tinklenberg, Claremont Graduate University
Co-Designed Rubrics for Transparency, Student Buy-In, and More
Ed Waggoner, Brite Divinity School, Presiding Efficient Grading
Panelists: T.L. Brink, Crafton Hills College
James Brandt, Saint Paul School of Theology Multiple Options Grading
Melanie L. Harris, University of Denver
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Graduate Theological Union, Pacific
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Christiana Zenner, Fordham University
Business Meeting:
Shelli Poe, Millsaps College, Presiding
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Matthew Milligan, Georgia College and State University
A24-127 (=S24-138) “Monastic Landlordism” as Institutionalization in Early Buddhism:
Evidence from Sri Lanka, c. 200 BCE to 200 CE
Western Esotericism Unit and SBL Mysticism, Esotericism,
Kendall Marchman, University of Georgia
and Gnosticism in Antiquity Unit Perceiving Authenticity: Online Travel Reviews of Buddhist Tourist
Theme: Modern Use of Ancient Texts and Artifacts Sites in China
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Responding:
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level) Kin Cheung, Moravian College
Grant Adamson, University of Arizona, Presiding Business Meeting:
April D. DeConick, Rice University Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Artifact Migration and the Transfer of Ancient Knowledge into
Modernity
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon
The Adaptation of 1 Enoch in the American Religious Imagination
A24-130 SCR
Religions, Borders, and Immigration Seminar
Marla Segol, State University of New York, Buffalo
Medical Embryologies Reborn: Mystical Narratives of Childbirth in Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Kabbalah, Jewish Prayer, and Contemporary Pregnancy Manuals Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level)
Stanislav Panin, Rice University Kristine Suna-Koro, Xavier University, Presiding
Transmission of Gnostic Ideas in Twentieth Century Russian Katherine Kunz, University of Basel
Esotericism Integration and “Being with” Refugees: A Case Study of Offene Kirche
Shannon Grimes, Meredith College Elisabethen, Basel, Switzerland
Zosimos and Theosebia: An Erotics of Alchemical Pedagogy Victor Carmona, University of San Diego, and Robert
Heimburger, Fundación Universitaria Seminario Bíblico de
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Colombia, International Foundation for Electoral Systems,
A24-128 CA Oxford Pastorate
The Border, Brexit, and the Church: A Comparative Theological-
Women and Religion Unit Ethical Analysis of U.S. Roman Catholic and Church of England
Theme: Solidarity and Defiant Spirituality (New York University Statements on Migration Today
Press, 2019) Molly Greening, Loyola University Chicago
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Border Walls and Islamic Borderlands: Transgressing the Shared Ethos
Convention Center-24B (Upper Level East) of Religious Boundary Making and Geopolitical Border Policing
Georgette Ledgister, Emory University, Presiding Kaia D. S. Rønsdal, University of Oslo
Fluid Hospitality in Borderlands
Panelists:
Thelathia Young, Bucknell University James McBride, New York University
The Wall, Semantic Desubstantiation, and Authoritarian Discourse:
Stephanie M. Crumpton, McCormick Theological Seminary Why Trumpism Confounds Its Critics
Sarojini Nadar, University of the Western Cape Edith Szanto, American University of Iraq, Sulaimani
Pui Lan Kwok, Episcopal Divinity School Voluntourism in Iraq: Saving Refugees during Vacation
Tracey Hucks, Colgate University Responding:
Responding: Ashley Theurig, Xavier University
Traci C. West, Drew University Anne Blankenship, North Dakota State University
Business Meeting: Helen Boursier, College of Saint Scholastica
K. Christine Pae, Denison University, and Stephanie May, First Kirsteen Kim, Fuller Theological Seminary
Parish in Wayland, WA, Presiding Loye Ashton, Tougaloo College
Mary Beth Yount, Neumann University
A24-129 C Business Meeting:
Alexander Y. Hwang, Saint Leo University, Presiding
Economics and Capitalism in the Study of Buddhism
Seminar
Theme: Authenticity and Merit: Institutions and Economic Actors
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level)
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Brenton Sullivan, Colgate University
Buddhist Bureaucrats and the Making of a Buddhist Empire
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-133 N
Exploratory Session: Hindu Philosophy
A24-131 N Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Exploratory Session: New Approaches in Asceticism Michael Allen, University of Virginia, Presiding
Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East) Watching the Moon Move: What The Imagists Might Ask of the Vedic
Alison Melnick, Bates College, Presiding Poets
Nourah Alhasawi, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University Catherine Prueitt, George Mason University
Sufis and Early Asceticism in Islam Abhinavagupta on the Transformation of Pain
Jimmy Yu, Florida State University Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad, Lancaster University
The Aesthetics of Asceticism: Chinese Blood Writings as Objects of Hearing, Thinking, Contemplation: Revisiting the Advaitic Model of
Connoisseurship the Accomplishment of Cognition
Laura Dunn, Graduate Theological Union Nalini Bhushan, Smith College
Reenchanting the Body: Modern-Day Asceticism of Ashtanga Yoga Gandhi’s Incipient Cosmopolitanism: Glimpses of Enlightenment
Rachel Wheeler, University of Portland Aspirations in Gandhi’s Antimodernist Nationalism
Reading Luce Irigaray for an Elaboration of the Shared as Ascetic Responding:
Practice Parimal G. Patil, Harvard University
Sam Houston, Stetson University
“Monks by Night and Knights by Day”: Asceticism as Precondition for
Socio-Political Critique in Modern Islamic Activism A24-134 W
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Responding: Women’s Caucus

Zachary Smith, Creighton University Theme: Women’s Religious Biographies: Growing the Space for
Women on Public Platforms like Wikipedia
A24-132 CN Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Exploratory Session: Mary Daly: Contributions and Janice Poss, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Controversies Melisa Ortiz Berry, Northwest Christian University
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Eclipsed by the Shadow of Her Husband: Hymnist and Evangelist
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Bertha Mae Lillenas
Sara Frykenberg, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles, Mary Hamlen, Harvard University
Presiding Being Bold and Speaking Clearly: The Pioneering Ministry of Rev.
Panelists: Dr. Yvonne V. Delk
Rachel A. Heath, Vanderbilt University May May Latt, American Theological Library Association
Kelly Stewart, Vanderbilt University (ATLA)
The Mother with Faith: Dr. Anna May Say Pa
Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge
Rosalind F. Hinton, Tulane University
Dirk von der Horst, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles New Orleans’ Jewish Legacies: Ida Weis Friend (1868–1963)
Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University Deborah Fulthorp, SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual Mae Eleanor Frey: Early 20th-Century Pentecostal Matriarch
Marie Cartier, California State University, Northridge, Presiding Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery
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A24-135 P24-104
Publications Committee Meeting International Society for Science and Religion
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Theme: GEN XYZ: Futures of Science and Religion
Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level) Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Theodore Vial, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding Marriott Marquis-Pacific 14 (First Level)
As Bob Dylan wrote, “The times, they are a changin’.” A new
generation of science and religion scholars is challenging how the
A24-142 (=S24-115a) discipline is shaped. They are changing the dominant methodologies
and research questions passed down from senior scholars. They also
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and insist upon new ways of questioning, knowing, and inhabiting an
SBL Biblical Literature and the Hermeneutics of Trauma inherently pluralist space. Where science and religion traditionally
Unit focused on cosmology, physics and evolutionary biology, now
Theme: Moral Injury/Moral Repair questions are being asked in ecology, ethics, mind, transhumanism
and world religions. Tomorrow’s leading scholars are exploring new
challenges and finding new ways to meet the intricate demands of
Convention Center-16A (Mezzanine Level) intrinsically interdisciplinary work. They embrace a plurality and
Joseph McDonald, University of South Carolina, Presiding specificity that marks the most promising and groundbreaking
Panelists: projects in the field. This session will highlight the work of leading
young scholars who will present an important, dynamic analysis of the
Brad Kelle, Point Loma Nazarene University futures of science and religion.
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College
Mardi M. Smith, Naval Medical Center, San Diego
Stephen Brown, Naval Medical Center, San Diego
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Responding: Manchester Wesley Research Centre
Christopher Frechette, Salem State University Theme: New Research on John Wesley, Methodist Missions, and
the Wesleyan Roots of British Pentecostalism
A24-143 C Marriott Marquis-Laguna (South Tower - First Level)
Liberation Theologies Unit Geordan Hammond, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester
Theme: Landscapes of Liberation: Building New Horizons of Wesley Research Centre, and David Bundy, New York Theological
Bodies, Borders, and Belonging Seminary, Nazarene Theological College, Presiding
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM This session highlights the research of recent Visiting Research
Fellows of the Manchester Wesley Research Centre. The first
Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West) presentation will focus on John Wesley’s publications against his
Maria T. Davila, Presiding perception of this Moravians’ antinimonian tendencies. Two papers
Nixon Shabalom Cleophat, Bloomfield College focus on 19th and early 20th century Methodist missions. One
Vodou, an Inclusive Epistemology: Toward A Queer Eco-Theology of presentation will analyse the missionary work of “Elliott of Faizabad”
Liberation in 19th century India, while the other paper will examine the “home
mission” of Wesleyan Methodist deaconesses and their role in the rise
Rebecca David-Hensley, Denver University, Iliff School of of “social Christianity” in Britain. The final presentation will explore
Theology the Wesleyan Roots of British Pentecostalism though elucidating the
Gendering Immigration: A Liberative Feminist Hermeneutic for connection between the Rev. A. A. Boddy and The Pentecostal League
Crossing the US/Mexico Border of Prayer. Collectively the presentations serve as examples of the wide-
Daniel Hauge, Boston University range of research possibilities on Methodism that may be undertaken
The Comforts of “Home”: White Comfort as Boundary Marker utilizing resources in the UK (particularly in Manchester).
Sunder John Boopalan, Princeton Theological Seminary Sarah Heaner Lancaster, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Borders, Bodies, Power, and Affect Sin and Duty: Methodists, Moravians, and Antinomianism
Sylvia Marcos, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México William Wood, Point Loma Nazarene University
Crossing Borders: Between Theologies and Feminisms in the “Elliott of Faizabad” and British Wesleyan-Methodist Missions in
Contemporary Mexican Political Context 19th Century India
Business Meeting: Christopher H. Evans, Boston University
“Lady Workers” and the Methodist Forward Movement: Reassessing
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University, Presiding the Historiography of Transatlantic Social Christianity, 1885–1914
Kimberly Alexander, Regent University
“A Larger World of Spirit-Filled Brothers and Sisters” —Rev. A. A.
Boddy, The Pentecostal League of Prayer, and the Wesleyan Roots of
British Pentecostalism
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Theta Alpha Kappa Board of Directors Meeting
P24-106 Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua Boardroom (Third Level)
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies
Theme: Intersection of Hindu-Christian Comparative Theology
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Society of Christian Philosophers
Theme: Philosophical Engagements with Christian Liturgy
Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College, Presiding
Sunday, 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
Panelists: Convention Center-11B (Upper Level West)
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University Sameer Yadav, Westmont College, Presiding
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary Wendy Farley, San Francisco Theological Seminary
Reid Locklin, University of Toronto A Liturgical Via Negativa: The Role of Those Driven away by the
Kalpesh Bhatt, University of Toronto Church in its Worship
Responding: Joshua Cockayne, University of St. Andrews
Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University Rites of Initiation: Baptismal Liturgy and Group Membership
Amber Griffioen, University of Konstanz
Earnest Play: Liturgy, Make-Believe, and Embodied Understanding
P24-132 A J. Kameron Carter, Indiana University
Liturgical S/Zong: A Ceremony of Black Radical Care(ss)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion

Theme: Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Became Self-
Sacrifice in Early Christianity (Feminist Studies in Religion Books, P24-108
2018)
Sunday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM North American Association for the Study of Religion
Marriott Marquis-Pacific 17 (First Level) Theme: Graduate Student Workshops Session One: Job Workshop
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University, Presiding Sunday, 10:00 AM–11:00 AM
A book review panel of Mary, Mother of Martyrs: How Motherhood Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Became Self-Sacrifice in Early Christianity, by Kathleen Gallagher Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, and Matt Sheedy,
Elkins. This book examines several ancient representations of mothers University of Manitoba, Presiding
and children in contexts of socio-political violence in order to explore
the political, social, and ethical production of notions of motherhood This session will explore the employment challenges facing early
both in antiquity and today. career scholars. This session addresses issues important to junior
academics (notably, but not exclusively, ABDs now entering/about
Panelists: to enter the job market) by demonstrating how a professional
Stephanie Buckhanon Crowder, Chicago Theological Seminary organization can provide a practical and strategic forum for job-
Sharon Jacob, Pacific School of Religion market advice. A senior scholar in the academic study of religion,
Russell McCutcheon, will evaluate the participants’ C.V. and sample
Hisako Kinukawa, Center for Feminist Theology and Ministry, cover letter. The facilitators will also discuss the job market, the hiring
Tokyo process, interviews, and other issues related to the job market.
Anna Rebecca Solevag, VID Specialized University
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Student Lounge Roundtable Sunday, 11:30 AM
Theme: Promises and Procrastination: How to Find Balance When Complimentary coffee will be served in the back
Everyone and Everything Need You Now!
of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall.
As graduate students, we are often subject to numerous, and at times,
conflicting demands, experiencing highs and lows throughout our
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studies. Sometimes we have our noses to the grindstone while other Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
times it feels like we have all the time in the world. However, although Religion
being graduate students is a significant portion of our identities, it is
not our sole identifier, nor should it be. In my roundtable, I want to Theme: Faculty of Color Luncheon
discuss the challenges, but also the rewards, of juggling the various Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
dimensional worlds we are responsible for with particular attention Convention Center-6E (Upper Level West)
to community involvement, such as volunteering and hobbies.
Drawing on my personal experiences, I will highlight how being Tim Lake, Wabash College and Wabash Center, Presiding
involved in volunteer (or work) opportunities outside of academia and You are invited to attend the Faculty of Color Luncheon. This
maintaining hobbies is not only beneficial for one’s graduate pursuits mealtime gathering is a space for fellowship, mutual support, and
— in the form of networking — it is also good for one’s mental empowerment for our teaching lives. Hear about Wabash Center
health, which in turn strengthens our studies. programming and how to apply for the 2020–21 Peer Mentoring
Panelist: Cluster Grants. Pre-registration is required. Send an email to Beth
Reffett reffettb@wabash.edu. Registration deadline is November 1.
Elizabeth Guthrie, University of Waterloo Walk-ins may also be accepted if space is available.
Panelists:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
P24-109 Mark Hearn, Seattle University
Stephanie M. Crumpton, McCormick Theological Seminary
Theme: Graduate Student Workshops Session Two: Academic
Publishing for Graduate Students A24-137
Public University Department Chairs Meeting
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Emily Suzanne Clark, Gonzaga University, and Andie Alexander,
Emory University, Presiding Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level)
This session will explore academic publishing opportunities for Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama, Presiding
graduate students. Grad students aren’t in positions to publish books, This session provides a forum for the chairs of religion/religious
but numerous publication opportunities exist for grad students. studies departments/programs at public universities to discuss issues
This panel will help grad students identify academic publishing related to teaching about and conducting research on religion in this
opportunities and will provide strategies and tips for successfully particular context.
publishing, with the goal of increasing a student’s marketability on the
job market.
Carolyn Roncolato, Interfaith Youth Core, Chicago, IL
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Careers Beyond the Academy
Angella Son, Drew University
Publishing Your Book
A24-138 FKG Mai-Anh L. Tran, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Women’s Mentoring Lunch Working Toward Tenure
Convention Center-6B (Upper Level West) A24-139
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University, and Swasti Bhattacharyya, Buena
Vista University, Presiding Women’s Caucus
Women who are graduate students and new scholars are invited Theme: The AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus International Network
to a luncheon with womanist, feminist, and LGBTIQ mid-career Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
and senior scholars. Women will have the opportunity to mentor Convention Center-14A (Mezzanine Level)
and be mentored in a context where every question is valued. Table
discussion topics include: On the Job Market; Working Toward Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, Presiding
Tenure; Publishing Your Book; Parenting in the Academy; Navigating The AAR/ SBL Women’s Caucus is forming a network of gender and
Oppression in the Academy; Contingent Faculty; Careers Beyond the religion international scholars. Come join this exciting new initiative
Academy; Getting Through Grad School; Scholar-Activism; Journal and participate in a brown bag discussion on how the AAR/ SBL
Publishing; and Learning to Say No. Women’s Caucus can best serve international scholars at the AAR/
The Status of Racial and Ethnic Minorities in the Profession SBL annual conference and beyond.
Committee and the Status of Women in the Profession Committee Panelists:
take an inclusive view of our constituency and welcomes all Julia Enxing, University of Dresden
participants who are impacted by womanhood through embodiment
and/or gender presentation, including transgender and nonbinary May May Latt, American Theological Library Association
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people. Registration for the lunch costs $15 per person and is limited (ATLA)
to 100 people. Kathleen McPhillips, University of Newcastle
To register for this luncheon, choose “Women’s Mentoring Luncheon” Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
in the “Options” section when registering for the Annual Meeting. If Alicia Panganiban, Mayo Clinic
you have already registered for the Annual Meeting, you may contact
Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
reg@aarweb.org to reserve your lunch.
Mary Churchill, Sonoma State University
Contingent Faculty
Aysha Hidayatullah, University of San Francisco
Getting through Grad School
Jung Ha Kim, Georgia State University
Learning to Say No
Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology
On the Job Market
Kimberly Majeski, Anderson University
Scholar-Activism
Joyce Ann Mercer, Yale University
Journal Publishing
Valerie Miles-Tribble, American Baptist Seminary of the West
Navigating Oppression in the Academy
Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne
TBD
Leah Payne, George Fox University
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Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
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Expanding the Public Sphere: Plenary Conversation
with Kate Bowler and AAR President Laurie Patton on
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Becoming a Public Intellectual Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and
Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Applied Religious Studies Committee
Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East) Theme: Contingency Possibilities: Career Options Within and
Beyond the Academy
After Kate Bowler’s 2013 book, Blessed: A History of
the American Prosperity Gospel, became an unexpected Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level)
public hit, she was diagnosed with stage IV cancer at Sara Kamali, University of Oxford, Presiding
the age of 35. This joint panel explores ways in which contingency may be
Kate was faced with the ironic situation of “being constructive (and the ways contingent faculty work can be made more
an expert on “health wealth and happiness while humane and viable) as part of a larger discussion about non-tenure
Kate Bowler being ill.” Her 2018 memoir, Everything Happens track and other professional pathways.
for a Reason, is a memoir exploring that existential Panelists:
irony, and the ways in the American belief that tragedy is a test
of character shaped her own response to illness. Now a speaker Sara Moslener, Central Michigan University
in high demand, Kate will engage with AAR President Laurie Carmelo Santos, Georgetown University
Patton on her transformation. Their conversation will focus on Zeyneb Sayilgan, Virginia Theological Seminary
what it has meant for Kate to become a public intellectual in the
Saba Soomekh, University of California, Los Angeles
midst of being a scholar, teacher, mother, wife, and cancer survivor.
In her own “expansion of the public sphere,” Kate has explored
questions of divine will and justice in contexts far outside of
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academe. What has shifted in her understandings of the role of A24-201 (=S24-245a)
the scholar in the world? How has her own thinking about public Writing on Religion for the General Reader: A Roundtable
life in America changed since she has started writing for and
speaking to larger audiences? Do the questions Kate raises about with Grantees in the NEH’s Public Scholar Program
the American prosperity gospel changed public discourse about Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
illness, divine will, and tragedy? Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Panelists: Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities, Presiding
Kate Bowler, Duke University In recent years more scholars in religious studies have become
interested in writing for general readers. They want to be read widely
and to contribute to discussions beyond the academic guild. For many
of these scholars, this kind of writing is why they pursued advanced
P24-111 education in religious studies in the first place. In this roundtable
session, three religion scholars who have received grants from the
North American Association for the Study of Religion NEH Public Scholar Program will discuss their experience writing
Theme: Graduate Student Workshops Lunch Session for a general audience. The goal is to encourage other scholars who are
interested in doing this kind of work. They will share their experiences
Sunday, 12:10 PM–1:10 PM and offer advice, especially on the differences between public
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level) scholarship and academic writing. Their discussion of conceptual and
practical questions will help those who would like to reshape their
scholarship for general readers.
A24-141 Q Panelists:
Chinese Historical Museum and Garden Walking Tour Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University
Sunday, 12:30 PM–1:45 PM Darren Dochuk, University of Notre Dame
Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G) Julie Byrne, Hofstra University
This docent-led tour provides an overview of the history of San
Diego’s Chinatown, the Chuang Garden, our permanent collection,
and featured exhibits in the Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Extension and
Chuang Archive and Learning Center.
The cost to attend is $10 per person. To attend, select this tour when
registering for the Annual Meeting. If you have already registered for
the Annual Meeting, you may contact reg@aarweb.org to reserve a
space in this tour.
Participants will meet at the Chinese Historical Museum, 404 3rd
Ave. Directions from the Convention Center: 0.3 mi, up 5th, left on K,
right on 3rd. The tour will start at 12:30 PM.
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Teaching and Learning Committee and Critical Theory and
A24-202 PK Discourses on Religion Unit and Cultural History of the
Study of Religion Unit
Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Theme: Theory and Method 2.0: Decolonizing the Field
Queer Persons in the Profession Committee Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Precarity and Non-Normativity Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level)
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Tracey Hucks, Colgate University, Presiding
Convention Center-17A (Mezzanine Level) By examining approaches to the study and definition of “religion”
S.J. Crasnow, Rockhurst University, Presiding that emanate from the experiences of marginalized peoples, this
This panel will explore the negotiation of non-normativity and its roundtable calls attention to the histories of violence and subjugation
accompanying precarity. The panel will examine presentation and concealed within the theoretical and methodological tools of the
performance in and out of the academy, disclosure of identities, field, illuminates the limitations of canonical definitions of religion,
performing relative to contingency, our existence in relationship to and explores the possibilities of decolonized critical tools. The central
a lack of safety and accessibility, the lack of institutional support, questions that organize our roundtable is: how do scholars study the
and the presentation of non-normative topics and approaches as religiosity of precolonial and colonized peoples (ref )using intellectual
“political”. apparatuses entrenched in histories of colonialism? Moreover, how
do scholars teach “theory and method” courses without reifying
Panelists: religious, racial, sexual, and political hierarchies within, between, and
Kerry Danner, Georgetown University in relationship to historically marginalized groups? Working from the
Robyn Henderson-Espinoza, Activist Theology Project, Nashville, margins of Indigenous Studies, Sikh Studies, Africana Studies, and
TN American Religious History, this roundtable explores the possibilities
–– for pedagogy and praxis –– that are opened when canon and
Amanullah De Sondy, University College Cork
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uniformity are deprioritized, as well as the ethical imperatives of this

Darla Schumm, Hollins University unapologetically decolonial work.
Nicholas Shrubsole, University of Central Florida Panelists:
Alexis S. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Vanderbilt University
A24-203 FK Natalie Avalos, University of Colorado
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University
Student Lounge Roundtable Simran Jeet Singh, New York University
Theme: Surviving and Even Enjoying Comprehensive Exams
Laura McTighe, Dartmouth College
The first major hurdle through the PhD process, the qualifying or
comprehensive exams, can be an extremely daunting experience.
A24-205 C
However, with enough preparation and guidance, they can be African Diaspora Religions Unit
approached and conquered with a relative amount of calm and Theme: The Encounter of Digital Media and Ritual in African
determination. Based in personal experience, countless conversations Diaspora Religions: The Redux
with faculty and other graduate students, and research on preparation Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
strategies, this roundtable will discuss effective tactics for approaching Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
the exams from the first stages of envisioning the exams all the way
through the defense. Participants will come away with proven effective Scott Alves Barton, New York University, Presiding
strategies concerning how to use coursework to their advantage, how Khytie Brown, Harvard University
to cultivate a reading list, how to study without going overboard, and Social Networking is Spiritual Networking: Jamaican Revival Zion
how to make the actual process of sitting the exams and the defense as Religion in Digital Space
painless as possible. Time will be reserved at the end for the creation
Megan Selander, University of Texas
of personal timelines to plan for the exams.
Searching in Sacred Subreddits: The Usage of Reddit in African
Panelist: Diasporic Newcomers’ Spiritual Journeys
Gwendolyn Gillson, Oberlin College Business Meeting:
Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver, Presiding
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Panelists:
A24-206 Eddie S. Glaude, Princeton University
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Contemplative Gary Dorrien, Columbia University, Union Theological Seminary
Studies Unit Eboni Marshall Turman, Yale University
Theme: Locating Contemplation Beyond Traditions: Engagements Business Meeting:
with Art and Literature Adam Clark, Xavier University, Presiding
CWK
Niki Clements, Rice University, Presiding A24-209
Douglas Christie, Loyola Marymount University Buddhism Unit
Helplessness, or the Holiday State of Mind: Agnes Martin’s Theme: Fostering Diversity in the Study of Asian Religions:
Contemplative Vision Foundation Support for Doctoral Study, Fellowships, and
Tracy Tiemeier, Loyola Marymount University Teaching Positions
Contemplation and the Post-God Spirituality of Marc Vinciguerra’s Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
The Religion of Atheism Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level)
Jared Lindahl, Brown University Natasha Heller, University of Virginia, and Stephen F. Teiser,
The Contemplative Mood of Nan Shepherd’s The Living Mountain: Princeton University, Presiding
An Embodied Ecocentric Epistemology
Panelists:
Stephen Bush, Brown University
Contemplation, Art, and the Racial Gaze Susan Andrews, Mount Allison University
Robert E. Buswell, University of California, Los Angeles
Responding:
Michelle Wang, Georgetown University
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
George Tanabe, University of Hawaii, Manoa (Honolulu)
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Elena Valussi, Loyola University, Chicago
A24-207 C Responding:
Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit Laurie Louise Patton, Middlebury College
Theme: Imperialism, Militarism, and the Religious Lives of Asian/ José I. Cabezón, University of California, Santa Barbara
Pacific Islander Americans Business Meeting:
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM James Robson, Harvard University, and Reiko Ohnuma,
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level) Dartmouth College, Presiding
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan, Presiding
Carleigh Beriont, Harvard University
“Children of Israel”: Marshallese and American Theologies of Nuclear
A24-210 CH
Testing, 1946–1958 Buddhist Philosophy Unit
Jesse Lee, Florida State University Theme: Ecology and Buddhist Philosophy
Recognizably Religious: On the Buddhist Churches of America, Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Citizenship, and Religious Translation
Sung Uk Lim, Yonsei University
Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University, Presiding
Memories of Suffering in Asia for Asian American Contexts: In Search
of a New Model to Remember Comfort Women in the Future Alexander McKinley, Loyola University
Plant Persons and Sentient Stones: Human Relativity in Theravada
B. Yuki Schwartz, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary Philosophies of Nature
Messianic Shame in the Novels of Ruth Ozeki
Dominic Sur, Utah State University
Business Meeting: Ecologies in an Eleventh Century Critique of Philosophical Certainty
Melissa Borja, University of Michigan, and SueJeanne Koh,
Susan Darlington, Hampshire College
University of California, Irvine, Presiding
Forest as Buddhist Practice
Stephanie Kaza, University of Vermont
A24-208 CA Buddhist Environmental Ethics: An Emergent and Contextual
Approach
Black Theology Unit Responding:
Theme: The 50th Anniversary of Black Theology and Black Power William Edelglass, Barre Center for Buddhist Studies, Marlboro
(Orbis, 1969): Looking Back, Moving Forward College
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Business Meeting:
Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University, and Tao Jiang, Rutgers
Adam Clark, Xavier University, Presiding University, Presiding
Confucian Traditions Unit
A24-211 SC Theme: Dragons, Mosquitos, and the Hundred Animals: Changing
Conceptions of Animals in Pre-Modern China
Comparative Religious Ethics Unit Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Catching up to CRISPR: Moral and Theological Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Level)
Responses to an Unprecedented Technology Mark Halperin, University of California, Davis, Presiding
Benjamin Daniels, University of California, Berkeley
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) Celestial Steeds and Agents of Chaos: Dragons in the Warring States
Jung Lee, Northeastern University, Presiding and Han
Joel Zimbelman, California State University, Chico Susie Wu
Managing New Technology When Effective Control Is Lost: Facing The Ethical and Political Importance of Mosquitoes in Classical
Hard Choices Chinese Poetry
Andrew Flescher, Stony Brook University Geoffrey Redmond, New York, NY
The Virtue of Mortality Animals in the Lives of Early Chinese: Evidence from the Zhouyi (I
Jonathan K. Crane, Emory University Ching)
Ethics in Search of Meta-Ethics: Jewish Bioethics of Genetic Responding:
Engineering Keith Knapp, The Citadel
Business Meeting: Business Meeting:
Jung Lee, Northeastern University, Presiding Aaron Stalnaker, Indiana University, and Pauline Lee, Saint Louis
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
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Comparative Theology Unit
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Theme: “Who Do They Say That I Am?”: Jesus in Comparative Contemporary Islam Unit and International Development
Theological Perspective and Religion Unit
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Theme: Making (Counter)Publics Through Islamic Development
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) and Humanitarianism
Catherine Cornille, Boston College, Presiding Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hans Harmakaputra, Boston College Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire E (Fourth Level)
A Comparative Theology Approach to the Quranic Notion of Jesus as Jill DeTemple, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
the “Word of God” and “Spirit from God” Basit Iqbal, University of California, Berkeley
Paul Hedges, RSIS, Nanyang Technological University “Spurring Humanity”: Islamist Counterpublic in a Humanitarian
Exploring Christology in Islam as Prophethood World
David Maayan, Boston College Katherine Merriman, University of North Carolina
A Talmudic Wrestling with God and Jesus: (Mis)Interpreting the Islamic Horizons for Aid: Taking the Long View of Muslim
Hands of God in History Charitable Practice in the United States
Katie Mylroie, Boston College Nermeen Mouftah, Butler University
Khrist Bhaktas: Jesus in Hinduism Development as a Way of Life: Continuing Alms, Continuing
Business Meeting: Revolution in Post-Mubarak Egypt
Bede Bidlack, Saint Anselm College, and Wilhelmus Valkenberg, Maliha Chishti, University of Chicago
Catholic University of America, Presiding Orientalist Tropes and “Rescuing” Afghan Women through Foreign
Aid Interventions
Responding:
Abbas Barzegar, Georgia State University
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Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit Hinduism Unit and Teaching Religion Unit
Theme: Pagan and Non-Pagan Cultural Interfaces: Co-Creating Theme: Teaching Religion in Translation: Take Hinduism, for
History and Authenticity Example
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level) Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502A (Fifth Level)
Vivianne Crowley, Nottingham Trent University, Presiding Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis, Presiding
Jennifer Uzzell, Durham University Panelists:
Looking Forward to the Past: The Emergence of Neolithic Style Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Barrows for Cremated Remains in Contemporary Britain and Their
Implications for Pagan Communities John Nemec, University of Virginia
Shubha Pathak, American University
A. Athanasios Apostolopoulos, Westbury, NY
Re-Hellenization in the Greek-American Diaspora: Hellenic Katherine C. Zubko, University of North Carolina, Asheville
Perspectives on Authenticity, Identity, and Conversion Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University
Tõnno Jonuks, Estonian Literary Museum Meghan Hartman, University of Virginia
Contemporary Paganism and Vernacular Interpretations: Deposits at
Sacred Places in Estonia
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA A24-218
Cornwall as a Site for Discourses of Authenticity in Contemporary
Witchcraft Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit and Native Traditions
in the Americas Unit
Theme: Privileging Indigenous Women: Strategies of Resistance
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
A24-216 and Survival
Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level)
Theme: Rethinking Religious Feminisms Through the Religious
Amy Foss, Independent Scholar, Presiding
Lives of Buddhist and Hindu Women in Asia and the Diaspora:
New Directions in Studies of Gender and Religion and Ines M. Talamantez, University of California, Santa Barbara
Comparative Religion Privileging Indigenous Women: Rematriation Strategies of Resistance
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM and Survival
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level) Delores Mondragon, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moral Injury as It Applies to and Is Relevant to Indigenous Women
Ute Huesken, Heidelberg University, Presiding Rematriation
Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University
“The Fight for Women’s Equal Rights Is Dharma”: Rethinking Emily Grace Brolaski, University of California, Santa Barbara
Religious Feminism through the New Leadership of a Female Resistance as Ceremony: 21st Century Indigenous Resistance and
Activism in North America
Shankaracharya in India
Nancy Morales, University of California, Santa Barbara
Amy P. Langenberg, Eckerd College
Un Llanto Colectivo: A Collective Project to Remember and Embody
Risini Power: Paradoxes of Female Religious Agency in the Nepal
Indigenous Values and Traditions
Lowlands
Felicia Lopez, University of California, Davis
Shefali More, South Asia Institute, University of Heidelberg
Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Central Mexican Codices:
Revisiting the Question of Authority to Speak in Gender and Religion:
Challenging Conceptions of an Aztec Patriarchy
The Case of Sabarimala
Andrea McComb Sanchez, University of Arizona
Nicholas Witkowski, Stanford University
Being an Ally in the Academy
Subtle Negotiations: The Challenges of Returning Female Buddhist
Monastics to Historical Visibility Responding:
Priyanka Ramlakhan, University of Florida Mary Churchill, Sonoma State University
I Am Not a Feminist, I Am Loyal to Our Recipient Heritage:
Interpreting Religious Feminism in Trinidadian Hinduism
Caroline Starkey, University of Leeds
Researcher and Researched: Methodological Reflexivity in the Study of
Women’s Agency and Religious Feminism in Buddhism and Hinduism
Responding:
June McDaniel, College of Charleston
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-221 CA
Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit
A24-219 Theme: The Spirit of the Age: Historical and Theological Trends in
the Study of Pentecostal-Charismatic Movements
Islamic Mysticism Unit Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Self and Other in Sufism: Moments of Identification Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level)
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Antipas L. Harris, Regent University, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level) Panelists:
Cyrus Zargar, University of Central Florida, Presiding Arlene Sanchez-Walsh, Azusa Pacific University
Sara Abdel-Latif, University of Toronto Néstor Medina, University of Toronto
Female Tricksters and Dissident Slaves as Enforcers of Idealized
Patriarchy in Early Sufi Literature (11th–13th Century) Responding:
Angela Tarango, Trinity University
Verena Meyer, Columbia University
Not a Wali, Not His Grave: The Sufi Dimensions of Modernist Peter Althouse, Florida Southern College
Discourse in Java Business Meeting:
Quinn Clark, Columbia University Andrea Johnson, California State University, Dominguez Hills,
Who Are “Non-Sunnis”? Intra-Islamic Relations in North India and and Leah Payne, George Fox University, Presiding
the Politics of Muslim Saint Shrines
Saeed Zarrabi-Zadeh, Universität Erfurt
Mystical Islam in the Occident: Multifaceted Presence and Association A24-222 A
with the “Counter-Culture”
Philosophy of Religion Unit and Study of Judaism Unit
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Responding: Theme: On the Duplicity of Philosophy’s Shadow (Columbia

Matthew Lynch, Bard College University Press, 2018): An Engagement with Elliot R. Wolfson
on Questions Concerning Heidegger, Philosophy of Religion, and
Modern Jewish Thought
A24-220 Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
New Religious Movements Unit Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West)
Theme: Sexual Healing and Sexual Mysticism at the Fin de Siecle Lucas Wright, University of California, Irvine, Presiding
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Panelists:
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level) Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College
Kathi Kern, University of Kentucky, Presiding Sarah Pessin, University of Denver
Joshua Paddison, Texas State University Ryan Coyne, University of Chicago
Thomas Lake Harris and the Sexual-Spiritual Secret of Eternal Life Responding:
Daniel Joslyn, New York University Elliot R. Wolfson, New York University
Sex with God as Sexual Healing in the Writings of Ida Craddock
Christa Shusko, York College of Pennsylvania
Alice Bunker Stockham: Sexual Healing for Individual and Social
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A24-223 Peter Coviello, University of Illinois, Chicago
Practical Theology Unit Rachel Feldman, Franklin and Marshall College
Theme: Interfaith Engagement and Practical Theology Ali Altaf Mian, University of Florida
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Responding:
Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East) Jasbir Puar, Rutgers University
Christian A. B. Scharen, Auburn Theological Seminary, Presiding
Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska, Omaha, and Amanda A24-226
Ryan, University of Nebraska, Omaha
That’s in Omaha? Toward a Practical Theology for Interreligious Religion in South Asia Unit
Dialogue Based on Theological Examination of the Tri-Faith
Theme: Polemics and Formations of Religious Identity in South
Initiative in Omaha, Nebraska
Asia
Marte Solbakken Leberg, MF Norwegian School of Theology Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Christian Faith in Dialogue with Others
Becca Whitla, Emmanuel College, Toronto School of Theology
Marie-Helene Gorisse, Ghent University, Presiding
Between Practice and Praxis: On Planning Interfaith Services
Vishal Sharma, University of Oxford
Keng Fan Chan, Graduate Theological Union Is Visnu Perfect or Vulnerable? Offence and Defense in South Indian
Interfaith Dialogue through Pilgrimage: A Case Study of the Agency of Epic Exegesis
the Divine Feminine in Macau
Lynna Dhanani, Yale University
Responding: Eulogizing the Same, Distancing the Other: Hemacandra’s Polemical
Marianne Moyaert, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Strategies in Hymn and Narrative
Jason Schwartz, University of California, Santa Barbara
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
From the Mouths of Visvakarmans: The Case for the Ontological
A24-224 Superiority of the Artisan Castes
Queer Studies in Religion Unit and Religion and Science Anil Mundra, University of Chicago
Fiction Unit Polemic and Doxography in Haribhadrasūri
Theme: Queering Religion and Science Fiction Jonathan Peterson, University of Toronto
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Paean for a Critique of Heretics: Polemic and Community in
Vadiraja’s Pasanda-Khandana-Stotra
Responding:
Shelly Tilton, University of Virginia, Presiding
Valerie Stoker, Wright State University
Lilith Acadia, Trinity College Dublin
God is Change: Queer Possibility and Feminist Vulnerability in
Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower
William Boyce, University of Virginia
A24-227 CW
Queering the Eschaton: Left Behind and Sexual Identity in the Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit
Evangelical Imagination Theme: Of Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert, and Religion: A
Ken Stone, Chicago Theological Seminary Conversation on Film Criticism and Religion in the Public Sphere
Queer Animalities and Eco-Spirituality in Margaret Atwood’s SF Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Maddaddam Trilogy Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level)
Max Thornton, Drew University Joel Mayward, University of Saint Andrews, Presiding
What God Needs with a Starship: The Necessity of Queer Speculative
Theological Imagination Panelists:
Rose Pacatte, Pauline Center for Media Studies
Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas
A24-225 A Glenn Heath, Pacific Arts Movement
Religion and Disability Studies Unit and Religion, Business Meeting:
Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit Jeanette Reedy Solano, California State University, Fullerton, and
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics: Jasbir Puar’s The Right to Maim: Kutter Callaway, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
Debility, Capacity, Disability (Duke University Press, 2017)
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College, Presiding
Panelists:
Mayanthi Fernando, University of California, Santa Cruz
John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College
Space, Place, and Religion Unit
A24-228 H Theme: Creating Religious Space in Asia: Monastic, Memorial,
and Pilgrimage Sites
Religions, Social Conflict, and Peace Unit Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: No Justice Without Peace: The Promise and Perils of Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Genocide Studies and Religious Peacemaking for Environmental Elizabeth Guthrie, University of Waterloo, Presiding
Justice
Julie Hanlon, University of Chicago
Constructing Early Jain Monasticism: Exploration of Ancient Jain
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level) Hill Sites in Tamil Nadu, South India
Dell deChant, University of South Florida, Presiding Kristina Buhrman, Florida State University
Kate Temoney, Montclair State University Haunts, Migrating: On the Placing and Re-Placing of Memorials for
Genocide, Religious Peacebuilding, and Ecojustice Disaster in Japan in a Historical and Comparative Context
Frederick Simmons, Princeton Theological Seminary Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, University of Delhi
Reevaluating the Relevance of Religious Peacemaking to Remembering Whose Guru? Claiming and Contesting the Geography
Environmental Justice and Ownership of Sacred Space in Sikkim
Sarah Fredericks, University of Chicago Blayne Harcey, Arizona State University
Climate Forgiveness U Thant and the Legacy of Development at the Birthplace of the
Responding: Buddha
Joshua Mauldin, Center of Theological Inquiry Business Meeting:
Susan L. Graham, Saint Peter’s University, and Brooke
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Schedneck, Rhodes College, Presiding

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Science, Technology, and Religion Unit A24-231
Theme: Monstrous Animacies? Race, Gender, and Pantheological
Divinities Tantric Studies Unit
Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Theme: Keeping It in the Family: Negotiating Boundaries in Kaula
Tantrism
Elizabeth Pyne, Fordham University, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level)
Panelists:
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin, Presiding
Catherine Keller, Drew University
Meera Kachroo, Saint Thomas More College
Carol Wayne White, Bucknell University Situating Śrīvidyā: Three Contemporary Tantric 0DΧΕDOưV
Lisa Sideris, Indiana University
Ben Williams, Naropa University
Andrea C. White, Union Theological Seminary The Trans-Ritual Liturgy of the Cidvilāsastava
Noreen Khawaja, Yale University Anna A. Golovkova, Bowdoin College
Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College Conceptions of Liberation in the Early Tantras of the Cult of
Responding: Tripurasundarī
Mary-Jane Rubenstein, Wesleyan University E. Sundari Johansen Hurwitt, California Institute of Integral
Studies
The Bud That Contains the Seed of the Kula: Virgin Worship and the
Influence of Śrīvidyā on the Kālīkula of Bengal
Responding:
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University
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Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
Theme: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam: Intersections with Religion
Eastern Late Antiquity Theme: Grant Design Conversations
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level) Convention Center-22 (Upper Level East)
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, Presiding Do you have a grant idea for a project on teaching and learning? Have
Jason Mokhtarian, Indiana University you ever thought about applying for a Wabash Center grant? Do you
Rabbis and Others in Babylonian Talmudic Medicine have questions about our grant procedures and protocols, whether
your project would qualify, or how your ideas might be shaped into an
Laura Locke Estes, Saint Louis University appropriate Wabash Center proposal? Come see us in the Convention
Accessorizing Faith: Dress as a Sign of Conversion in Two Christian Center Room 22 either on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM,
Martyrdom Accounts or Monday, Nov 25, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM to meet with one of the
Mark Leuchter, Temple University Wabash Center Staff. We are scheduling appointments ahead of time.
Ezra, the Great Assembly, and the Mythopoesis of a Rabbinic Future Please write Beth Reffett (reffettb@wabash.edu) to schedule a time to
Business Meeting: meet with us. Registration deadline is November 1.
Naomi Koltun-Fromm, Haverford College, and James McGrath,
Butler University, Presiding A24-234 Q
Historical Gaslamp Walking Tour
A24-233 W Sunday, 2:15 PM–3:45 PM
Women’s Caucus Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Theme: Scholars on Women’s and Gender Studies: Constructing See page 9 for details.
Knowledge and Influencing the Public Discourse
P24-202
Deborah Fulthorp, SUM Bible College and Theological Seminary, North American Association for the Study of Religion
and Alicia Panganiban, Mayo Clinic, Presiding Theme: Graduate Student Workshops Session Four: Alternative
Joy Qualls, Biola University Careers for Religious Studies Scholars
“God Forgive Us for Being Women”: Rhetoric, Theology, and the Sunday, 2:20 PM–3:20 PM
Pentecostal Tradition Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Lisa Isherwood, University of Winchester and Dirk von der Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College, and Emily Crews, University of
Horst, Mount Saint Mary’s University, Los Angeles Chicago, Presiding
Contemporary Theological Approaches to Sexuality
With more scholars competing for fewer jobs, PhDs in Religious
Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego Studies are increasingly looking for careers outside the academy. This
Buddhist Feminisms and Femininities workshop will identify fields and career paths for PhDs who wish or
who otherwise need to pursue alternative careers.
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Theme: Graduate Student Workshops Session Three: Navigating
the Politics of Academia
Rebekka King, Middle Tennessee State University, and Stacie Swain,
University of Victoria, Presiding
Academia is coming to terms with its own #metoo movement.
Graduate students and early career scholars are particularly vulnerable
to harassment, discrimination, and abuse. This session will provide a
forum to discuss the institutional politics and power dynamics that
make it difficult to report such experiences in academia (in particular
for women and minoritized groups). Discussants will provide input on
strategies for making campuses safer, identifying resources for victims,
and generating best practices for allies and bystanders.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-301 PK
Applied Religious Studies Committee and Teaching
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Religion Unit
Theme: Integrating Applied Objectives and Career Readiness
Competencies into the Study of Religions
Coffee Break Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Level)
Sunday, 3:30 PM
Thomas Pearson, Wabash Center, Presiding
Complimentary coffee will be served in the back
The Teaching Religion Unit and the Applied Religious Studies
of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall. Committee will co-host a conversation about how programs navigate
teaching the study of religions while integrating applied objectives
(e.g. NACE career readiness competencies: bit.ly/2PoIPWK) into
A24-300 P undergraduate and graduate curriculums. We welcome faculty in
programs with an applied focus or in departments considering an
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee applied approach to discuss program origins, faculty development,
curriculum, student outcomes, benefits, and challenges.
Theme: The State of the Field: A Preliminary Report on
Employment Landscape in Religious Studies and Theology Panelists:
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Sabina Ali, Georgia State University
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level) Molly Bassett, Georgia State University
Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, and Kerry Danner, Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
Georgetown University, Presiding Paul A. Williams, University of Nebraska, Omaha
This past summer the Society of Christian Ethics led the way in a
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
broad-scale intersocietal study on the landscape of employment in

religious studies and theology. This panel will share preliminary data
from this study. Joined by American Academy of Religion and the
A24-302 FPK
Society of Biblical Literature, this roundtable will explore what we Employment Workshop: Preparing for the Non-Academic
now know — and don’t know — about the state and trajectory of our Career
field. Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Panelists: Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East)
Matthew Gaudet, Santa Clara University, Society of Christian Karen Kelsky, The Professor Is In, Presiding
Ethics
In this 90 minute workshop, Karen Kelsky of The Professor Is In will
Joshua Patterson, American Academy of Religion discuss strategies for non-academic job hunting, and the emotional
Christopher Hooker, Society of Biblical Literature and logistical barriers that often inhibit Ph.D.s from trying.
Responding: Sponsored by the Applied Religious Studies Committee.
Zayn Kassam, Pomona College, AAR Status Director Panelist:
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Public Understanding of Religion Committee Religion and the Arts Award Jury
Theme: 2019 Martin E. Marty Award for the Public Understanding Theme: Conversation with Religion and the Arts Award Recipient
of Religion Forum: Wade Clark Roof — Ron Athey
Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East) Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East)
Erik Owens, Boston College, Presiding Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University, Presiding
Wade Clark Roof is the 2019 winner of the Martin E. Ron Athey is the recipient of the 2019 Religion and the
Marty Award for the Public Understanding of Religion. Arts Award. Athey is a queer American performance artist
Having passed away suddenly on August 24, 2019, he who has engaged with religious visual and aural forms
will receive the award posthumously at this year’s Marty throughout his career. The AAR is proud to recognize a
Award Forum. consistently provocative body of work, at the intersection
Roof was Distinguished Emeritus Professor of Religious of autobiography, creative expression, and critique. Athey’s
Wade Clark Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Ron Athey performances are deeply rooted in Pentecostal traditions of
Roof faith healing, Catholic imagery, and queer histories, from
where he founded and directed the Walter H. Capps
Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life. Trained as a the autobiographical Torture Trilogy (1992–1997), which re-interpreted
sociologist of religion, and the author of fourteen books, he was widely Biblical narratives in terms of queer sexualities and sado-masochistic
known for his scholarship on the cultural, civic, and political effects visual culture, to the recent Acephalous Monster (2018). His work was
of religious pluralism in the United States, and in particular on the regularly assailed by conservative cultural critics in the 1990s, and he has
spiritual lives of the baby boomer generation. Under his leadership, performed throughout Europe and the Americas. Panelists Anthony
the Capps Center consistently brought together multiple publics Petro (Boston University) and Linn Tonstad (Yale Divinity School) will
— scholars, students, Santa Barbara residents, journalists, scientists, explore with Athey the contributions of particular works as well as his
elected officials, and more — for extended conversations about key history in engaging the public’s understanding of religion.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
matters of common concern. The Marty Award recognizes Professor Panelists:
Roof ’s many contributions as a public scholar, institution builder, and Ron Athey, Los Angeles, CA
advocate for religious studies and the humanities.
Linn Tonstad, Yale University
In this year’s Marty Award Forum, E.J. Dionne (University Professor
in the Foundations of Democracy and Culture at Georgetown Anthony Petro, Boston University
University, W. Averell Harriman Chair and Senior Fellow of
Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution, and syndicated
columnist for the Washington Post) will join Roof ’s former colleague
Kathleen Moore (chair of the Religious Studies department at UCSB
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and interim director of the Capps Center) and two former students, Student Lounge Roundtable
Julie Ingersoll (University of North Florida) and J. Shawn Landres Theme: Teaching the ABCs While Earning Your PhD: How
( Jumpstart Labs) for an extended public discussion of Roof ’s life and To Live Well While Navigating the Pressures of Parenting and
work. Contributions from the audience will be welcomed as well. Doctoral Work
Panelists: Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
E.J. Dionne, Brookings Institute, Washington Post Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level)
Julie Ingersoll, University of North Florida This workshop offers strategies for navigating the pressures of doctoral
work combined with the demands and pleasures of family life. It also
J. Shawn Landres, University of California, Los Angeles seeks to create an environment for creative sharing and brainstorming
Kathleen Moore, University of California, Santa Barbara about ways to both succeed academically while still thriving
personally. Attendees can expect to leave with tangible suggestions for
scheduling their time, re-imagining where and how work happens,
and how to match goals with priorities in order to meet the demands
of PhD life while also making space to care for one’s self, nurture
important relationships, and raise children.
This workshop will provide a one-sheet handout with suggestions
for creating support networks, making schedules that work for you,
channeling your built-in resources, learning to multi-task efficiently
and identify when to focus on a single task, take breaks and be present
to enjoy life. These tips will come from a wide swath of resources, from
Brigid Schulte’s book Overwhelmed: Work, Love and Play When No One
has the Time, to high performance coaches like Brendon Burchard,
to mindfulness teachers like Thich Nhat Hanh. Additionally, I will
draw upon my own experiences as a PhD candidate, mom and wife
who successfully navigated coursework, comprehensive exams, the
beginnings of dissertation research, and even potty training with twin
preschoolers.
Panelist:
Marie Purcell, Southern Methodist University
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Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
A24-307 #animalsaar19 S and North American Hinduism Unit and Study of Islam
Unit and Study of Judaism Unit
Animals and Religion Unit and Native Traditions in the Theme: Making America Hate Again: Contextualizing Violence
Americas Unit Against Religious Minorities in and Beyond Trump’s America
Theme: Animals Are People Too: Human-Animal Relationships in Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
the Native Traditions of the Americas Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level)
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Annalise Glauz-Todrank, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East) Panelists:
David Aftandilian, Texas Christian University, Presiding Tanisha Ramachandran, Wake Forest University
Kerry Hull, Brigham Young University Ronald Neal, Wake Forest University
The Mythos of Origin: The Personhood of Animals in Ancient and
Modern Maya Traditions Simran Jeet Singh, New York University
Tom Berendt, Temple University Ayesha S. Chaudhry, University of British Columbia
The Buffalo Teacher: A Biomimetic Interpretation of Bovine Shana Sippy, Carleton College, Centre College
Veneration
Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College
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David Walsh, Gettysburg College Body and Religion Unit
When the Caribou Do Not Return: Indigenous Dene Conceptions of Theme: Revisiting Merleau-Ponty and the Body
Personhood and Responses to Caribou Decline
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Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level)
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Sean Dempsey, University of Arkansas
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit Sacramental Subjects: Sympathy, Sensibility, and Merleau-Ponty
Theme: Welcoming Religion around Virginia Woolf (Penn State
University Press, 2019) by Stephanie Paulsell Jonathan Russell, Claremont Graduate University
Merleau-Ponty, Intercorporeality, and Religion
Anne Austad, VID Specialized University
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level) Healing Experiences and the Lived Body
Panelists:
David H. Nikkel, University of North Carolina, Pembroke
Mara Willard, Boston College Merleau-Ponty’s Phenomenal Body against the “Intellectualist” Body
Pericles Lewis, Yale University and “Empiricist” Body
Jane de Gay, Leeds Trinity University
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Responding:
Stephanie Paulsell, Harvard University
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Schleiermacher Unit Theme: The Voice of a Child: Children as Catalysts for Communal
Theme: Church as Political Institution: Schleiermacher, Transformation
Bonhoeffer, and Arendt on Public Faith and Political Action Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 402 (Fourth Level)
Convention Center-24B (Upper Level East) Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University, Presiding
Shelli Poe, Millsaps College, and Lori Brandt Hale, Augsburg James D. Smith, Bethel Seminary, Richmont Graduate University
University, Presiding Imitating Christ, Valuing Children, Advocating Human Rights: Jean
David Robinson, Regent College Gerson and Christian Childhood
Against a Docetic Ecclesiology: Schleiermacher and Bonhoeffer on Wendy Love Anderson, Washington University in St. Louis
Christ’s Body Politic The Fifth Child: Changing Jewish Perspectives on Children’s
Shinkyu Lee, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago Religiosity
Profiles of Religion in Forgiveness: Arendt and Bonhoeffer on Karin Rubenson, Uppsala University
Christian Forgiveness “The Children Are the Future” or “I Do Not Want Your Hope”
Responding:
A24-312 Sally Stamper, Capital University
Buddhism Unit and Japanese Religions Unit

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Jacqueline Stone
Chinese Religions Unit and Daoist Studies Unit
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Theme: Rock, Paper, Wood: Exploring Material Culture in
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level) Daoism and Chinese Religions
Paul Groner, University of Virginia, Presiding Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level)
Sociality and Salvific Imagination in Pure Land Liturgical
Communities of Song China Gil Raz, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Yi Ding, Stanford University
Heather Blair, Indiana University A Call for Cosmic Renewal in a Time of Crisis: Divine Stones, Temple
Convention and Idiosyncrasy: Doing Parinirvana with Princess Construction, and the Stele Inscription of the Sable Sheep Palace
Tokushi in the Early Twelfth Century
Yuhang Li, University of Wisconsin
Victoria Montrose, University of Southern California The Ephemeral Signs of Transcendence: Paper Objects in Empress
Reform or Revolt: Student Protests and Collective Action at Buddhist Dowager Cixi’s Funeral Practice
Universities in the Meiji Period
Jin Tao, University of Chicago Divinity School
Responding: City-God’s New Clothes: A Preliminary Study of the Articulated
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University Living Image (ALI)
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Buddhist Philosophy Unit Christian Spirituality Unit
Theme: Pure Lands Across Asia: Transformations of the Theme: Liberation: Perspectives from Christian Spirituality
%XGGKDNԔHWUD in South and East Asian Discourses
Diana L. Villegas, University of the Free State, Presiding
Tao Jiang, Rutgers University, Presiding
Michael O’Sullivan, Spirituality Institute for Research and
Roshni Patel, Colgate University Education
The Bearing of the Field (NΙHWUD) in the Bhagavad-Gītā and the Spirituality of Liberation: Thirtieth Anniversary of the Martyrdom of
Vimalakīrtinirdeśasūtra University President, Ignacio Ellacuria, and Jesuit Companions
Sarah Mattice, University of North Florida Colleen Cross, University of Notre Dame
Pure Lands (淨土) and Nianfo (念佛) in Chinese Buddhist Discourse “Unlocking Human Dignity”: A Spirituality of Liberation from the
and Practice Context of U.S. Immigrant Detention and Deportation
Leah Kalmanson, Drake University David de la Fuente, Fordham University
Shinran’s Concept of the Pure Land as Framed by the Problem of The Liberating Spirit of the Crucified: Ellacuría’s Liberation
Practice Spirituality and Pneumatologies of Abiding and Resistance
Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
A24-317 Theme: Religion and Humor in South Asia
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West)
Theme: The Subject of Labor: Gender, Caste, Affect Shubha Pathak, American University, Presiding
Jason Smith, Harvard University
Marriott Marquis-Laguna (South Tower - First Level) The Ethics of Humor in Kālidāsa’s Abhijñānaśākuntalam
Jeremy Posadas, Austin College, Presiding Seth Ligo, Duke University
Mark Balmforth, Columbia University Cries of Terror, Shrieks of Laughter: Marginal Yogīs and the
The Aesthetics of Slavery: Religion, Textiles, and Caste in the Indian Complementary Modalities of Humor and Fear
Ocean, 1660–1960 Lynna Dhanani, Yale University
Samira Musleh, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Destabilizing Religious Imagination: Polemical Humor in
Sexual Division of Labor and Its Discontents: The Disorganized Hemacandra’s Literary Texts
Harmony of Islamic Discourse, Feminist Theory, and Decolonial Aleksandra Restifo, Yale University
Thought The Effect of 5ƘYDΧDµV Tricks: Comedy and Tragedy in Rāmacandra’s
B. Yuki Schwartz, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary 5DJKXYLOƘVDQƘԮDND
Guilt, Salvation, and Power: Domestic Workers and Abjection in Gregory Clines, Trinity University
Christian Theology How Jains Came to Make Dad Jokes: Hanumān’s Parents According to
Joseph Strife, Fordham University Two Jain Authors
Work at the Margins, Shame, and Spirit Responding:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
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Women and Religion Unit Comparative Theology Unit
Theme: Female Child Soldiers, Gender Violence, and Feminist
Theme: Assessing Jewish-Christian Comparative Theology
Theologies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire E (Fourth Level)
Philip Cunningham, St. Joseph’s University, Presiding
Susan Willhauck, Atlantic School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Traci C. West, Drew University
Confronting U.S. Moral Hypocrisy on Child Soldiers, Inventing Adam Gregerman, Saint Joseph’s University
Antiracist Solidarity Daniel Joslyn-Siemiatkoski, Seminary of the Southwest
Beverly Mitchell, Wesley Theological Seminary Marianne Moyaert, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Human Rights, Dignity, and Female Child Soldiers: A Theological Devorah Schoenfeld, Loyola University, Chicago
Approach
Beatrice Wallins, Seattle University
Georgette Ledgister, Emory University
“I’d Rather Die Than Wrestle”: Gender, Spirituality and Agency Samuel Kessler, Gustavus Adolphus College
amongst the Luba Mai-Mai
Mary Nyangweso, East Carolina University
Battling a “War within a War”: Challenges of Being Female in Africa
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Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit Gay Men and Religion Unit
Theme: Locating Pagan Politics Theme: Eschatological Judgments and the Experiences of Gay Men
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Damon Berry, Saint Lawrence University, Presiding Or Porath, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
Helen Berger, Brandeis University Jason Steidl, Saint Joseph’s College
Ethics, Contemporary Pagans, and the Alt-Right Swallowed by Satan: Joseph Sciambra, Catholic Rhetoric of the
Giovanna Parmigiani, Harvard University Demonic, and the HIV/AIDS Apocalypse
The “Politics of Desire” among Southern-Italian Neo-Pagans Richard McCarty, Mercyhurst University
Business Meeting: An Eschatological Challenge to Homonormativity
Amy Hale, Atlanta, GA, Presiding Mohamed S. Hassan, Temple University
“The Earth Will Suck Him inside and He Shall Reach the Place of the
Dead of Lut”: Homosexuality, Eschatological Imaginings, and Eternal
A24-322 Damnations in Islamic Texts
Responding:
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit and Religious Conversions Roger A. Sneed, Furman University
Unit
Theme: Turns and Returns: Conversions to Eastern Orthodoxy
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM A24-325 C
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Rico Gabriel Monge, University of San Diego, Presiding Theme: Mind and Consciousness: Indian and Chinese Approaches
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, New York University Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Political Apostasy: Conversion to Russian Orthodoxy in the Trump-
Putin Era Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level)
Maria Heim, Amherst College, Presiding
Mary Grace DuPree, Emory University
Politics in Pigments: Change in the Greek-American Community Karen O’Brien-Kop, SOAS University of London
Written in Icons Mind, Meditation, and the Metaphor of Cultivation: Bhāvanā and
the Case of Rice Cultivation
Lydia Bringerud, Memorial University of Newfoundland
“The Church Is Always People”: Converts to Orthodox Christianity Fei Zhao, University of Washington
and Vernacular Theologies Consciousness as a Pincer or a Pond: Different Interpretations of the
Term Akāra and Their Cognitive Models
Philipp Reisner, University of Düsseldorf
Eastern Orthodoxy and the Specters of Contemporary Protestantism: Xiaoming Hou, École Pratique des Hautes Études
Intra-Christian Conversion in Historical Perspective Same yet Different? The Superior and Inferior Four Dhyāna in the
Works of Zhiyi (538–597)
Business Meeting:
A24-323 Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University, and Michael Allen, University
Ecclesiological Investigations Unit and Vatican II Studies of Virginia, Presiding
Unit
Theme: Crisis in the Church: Patterns of Abuse as Challenge and
Opportunity for Reform
Catherine E. Clifford, Saint Paul University, Presiding
Hendrik Pieter de Roest, Protestant Theological University
Sexual Abuse in Pastoral Relationships and the Relational Dynamics
in the Parish in the Aftermath
Massimo Faggioli, Villanova University
Apparent Victory, Actual Defeat? Vatican II Ecclesiology of the
Episcopate and the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis
Gerard Mannion, Georgetown University
From Social Sin and Institutional Malaise to a Culture of
Truthfulness, Accountability and Co-Responsibility: Steps to Move
beyond Ecclesial Crisis Mode
Responding:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Bindi Shah, University of Southampton
Business Meeting:
A24-326 #innovatingspiritualcare UR Mary Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University, and Steven
Vose, Florida International University, Presiding
Innovations in Chaplaincy and Spiritual Care Unit
Theme: Intersectional Spiritual Care: Chaplaincy Across Lines of
Difference
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Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Korean Religions Unit
Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East) Theme: Material Culture and Korean Religions
Sarah Jobe, Duke University, Presiding Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Donna S. Mote, University of the South Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level)
Chaplaining Dignified Transfers: Public Liturgy and the Sacred So-Yi Chung, Sogang University, Presiding
Remains at ATL
Yohan Yoo, Seoul National University
Daniel Roberts, Roberts Research and Consulting Material God: Jeju Shamans’ Instrument and Tutelary Deity, Mengdu
Military Male Chaplains’ Pastoral Support of Female Soldiers: A
Descriptive Case Study Hyemin Na, Emory University
The Smartphone as Religious Relic: An Object Lesson in Surveillance,
Brent Beavers, Graduate Theological Union, Institute of Buddhist Bureaucracy, and the Gospel of Progress in Korean Protestant
Studies Christianity in Global Korea
The Interruption of Transgender Othering in Healthcare: A Buddhist
Approach for all Chaplains Liora Sarfati, Tel Aviv University
The Material Manipulation of Ritual Sites in Korean Shamanism
Lance D. Laird, Boston University
Muslim Healthcare Chaplains: Education, Translation, and Code Responding:
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Switching in a Minority Religious Community David Morgan, Duke University

Pamela Couture, University of Toronto Business Meeting:
Inter-Religious, Inter-Spiritual, and Inter-Cultural Formation for Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah, and Hwansoo Kim, Yale
Spiritual Care Practice University, Presiding
Responding:
Pamela Yetunde, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
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Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit and Religion and
A24-327 #jainstudiesaar C Popular Culture Unit
Jain Studies Unit Theme: Media Masculinities: Profiles of Christian, Hindu, and
Theme: Jain Diaspora Temple Committees and Praxis Muslim Masculinities in Popular Culture
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level)
Sherry Fohr, Converse College, Presiding Linda G. Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra, Presiding
Mirjam Iseli, Universität Bern Drake Konow, Yale University
Jains in Switzerland: Establishment and Dissolution of a Supra- “God Bless Gay”: Blackness and the Burden of Reconciling Religion
Denominational Community and Queer Sexuality
Venu Mehta, University of Florida Lauren Sawyer, Drew Theological School
Sectarian Negotiations among the Jain Religious Diaspora in the USA Lust is Not the Problem (White Male Supremacy Is): A Feminist
Critique of the “Smokin’ Hot Wife”
Shivani Bothra, Victoria University of Wellington
Jainism in Diaspora: Shift in the Transmission of Children’s Religious Samah Choudhury, University of North Carolina
Education towards Negotiating Tradition and Continuity American Muslim Humor: Colonial Masculinities and the
Racialization of Religion
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Mysticism Unit and Philosophy of Religion Unit Religion and Migration Unit
Theme: Mysticism and Resistance: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Theme: Migration and Everyday Religion: Secular Society
for Philosophy of Religion Institutions (Re)Challenged
Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level) Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502A (Fifth Level)
Jason N. Blum, Davidson College, Presiding Karen Marie Leth-Nissen, University of Copenhagen, and Leif
Christina Van Dyke, Calvin College Stenberg, Aga Khan University, Presiding
From Meditation to Contemplation: Broadening the Borders Dan-Erik Andersson, Lund University
Sameer Yadav, Westmont College Hand on the Heart, Handshake, Hug, or a Kiss? The Art of Greeting
The Mystical Self as Political Self Each Other in a Multi-Cultural Society
Joy R. Bostic, Case Western Reserve University Johanna Gustafsson Lundberg, Lund University, and Ryszard
Black Mystical Cultures and Prophetic Traditions of Resistance in Hip Bobrowicz, Lund University
Hop and Black Popular Culture Handshake Debates in the Context of Nordic Secularism: Mediation
by Law through Religious Literacy, Translation and Fairness
Responding:
Jonathan Morgan, Lund University
Amber Griffioen, University of Konstanz In the Right Place at the Right Time: The Accidental Missionary
Activities of the Church of Sweden in Their Work with Unaccompanied
Refugee Minors
A24-331 Business Meeting:
North American Religions Unit Nanette Spina, University of Georgia, and Rubina Ramji, Cape
Theme: The World on Fire: Reflections from North America Breton University, Presiding
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level) A24-334
Hillary Kaell, Concordia University, Montreal, Presiding
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University Religion and Politics Unit and Religions, Social Conflict,
Earth on Fire: The Dystopian Prophets and Profits of Marketing and Peace Unit
Planetary Apocalypse and Exodus in the Business of Mars Theme: Countering Violent Extremism and Terrorist
Colonization Rehabilitation Programs: Regulating Islamic Narratives and
Laura McTighe, Dartmouth College Practices in China, Singapore, and Australia
Theory on the Ground Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Lise Miltner, Brown University Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
Lived Rituals: Response to Identity Trauma and Wildfire Hatem Bazian, University of California, Berkeley, Zaytuna College,
Jack Downey, La Salle University Presiding
Apocalypse Camp: Emergent Strategy at the End of the World Mohamed Nawab Mohamed Osman, Nanyang Technological
University
Responding: The Construction of the Uighur Threat in China’s Countering Violent
Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico Extremism (CVE) Policy
David Tittensor, Deakin University
A24-332 C Counter Terrorism as “Performance” and the Muslim Bogey Man in
Australia
Religion and Cities Unit Aida Arosoaie, University of Wisconsin
Theme: Cosmopolitanism and Mobile Cities: Interreligious Religious Rehabilitation in Singapore: Religion, Race, and State
Communication in Mumbai and Inter-Regional Pilgrimage in Politics
Indonesia
Rupa Pillai, University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
István Keul, University of Bergen
Contextual Religious Cosmopolitanism in Mumbai
James Edmonds, Arizona State University
Pilgrimage Sites as Mobile Cities: Indonesian Piety on the Move
Business Meeting:
Harold Morales, Morgan State University, Presiding
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit and Science,
A24-335 CA Technology, and Religion Unit
Theme: Emotion Science, Cognition, and Religion
Religion in Europe Unit and Religion in Premodern Europe Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
and the Mediterranean Unit Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level)
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics: John Tolan, Faces of Muhammad: Allison Covey, Villanova University, Presiding
Western Perceptions of the Prophet of Islam from the Middle Ages to
Today (Princeton University Press, 2019) Donovan Schaefer, University of Pennsylvania, and Simeon Zahl,
University of Cambridge
The Faith of the Enlightenment: Theology, Religious Studies, and the
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Affective Science of Cognition
Anna Moreland, Villanova University, Presiding Sarah Lane Ritchie, University of Edinburgh
Panelists: The New Science of Psychedelics and the Embodied Experience of
Stephanie Yep, Emory University Religious Belief
Fadi Ragheb, University of Toronto Niki Clements, Rice University
A Typology of Emotion, Affect, and Feeling for the Study of Religion
David Freidenreich, Colby College
and Cognition
Jamel Velji, Claremont McKenna College
Responding:
Responding:
Michael Spezio, Scripps College
John Tolan, University of Nantes
Business Meeting:
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SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
David Freidenreich, Colby College, Presiding

Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
A24-336 Theme: Religion, Interrupted: Mental Illness, Minority
Communities, and American Asylums
Religion in Southeast Asia Unit and New Perspectives on Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Religion in the Philippines Seminar Marriott Marquis-Presidio 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Theme: The Philippines as a Site of Religion – Global Connections Leslie Ribovich, Princeton University, Presiding
and Regional Entanglements
Judith Weisenfeld, Princeton University
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM “Excessive Religious Excitement”: Black Religions in the American
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level) Asylum
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn, Presiding Sarah Dees, Northwestern University
Panelists: Native American Spirituality and Mental Illness: The Hiawatha
Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan Asylum for Insane Indians (1898–1934)
Oona Paredes, National University of Singapore Shari Rabin, Oberlin College
“A Species of Insanity”: Senility, Lunacy, and American Jews (1882–
Giovanni Maltese, University of Hamburg 1930)
Richard Fox, University of Victoria
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A24-339 #aarsor Gloria I-Ling Chien, Gonzaga University, and Trung Huynh,
University of Houston, Presiding
Sociology of Religion Unit
Theme: Who Counts? Religious Participation, Social Science
Methods, and Determining Data in the Study of Religion A24-342
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire M (Fourth Level) Chinese Christianities Seminar
Katja Rakow, Utrecht University, Presiding Theme: Exceptionalism in Chinese Christianities
Kathleen Garces-Foley, Marymount University
When Mainline Protestant Young Adults Go Church Shopping Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Sarah Kathleen Johnson, University of Notre Dame, and David Christie Chui-Shan Chow, City Seminary of New York, Presiding
Sikkink, University of Notre Dame Gideon Elazar, Ariel University, Bar Ilan University
Occasional Religious Participation: A Congregational Level Analysis Back to Jerusalem: The Chinese-Christian Road to Globalization and
Elaine Howard Ecklund, Rice University, Denise Daniels, Seattle Indigenization
Pacific University, and Rachel Schneider, Rice University Stephanie Wong, Valparaiso University
Faith at Work: Applying Empirical Research to Church Life Opposing Integralism: Chinese Catholicism and the Circumscription of
Peder Thalén, University of Gavle “Religion” in the Beiyang Era
Is It Possible to Measure Atheism? Remarks on Methodological Justin Tse, Northwestern University
Problems in Sociology of Religion Sheets of Scattered Sand: Cantonese Protestants on the Pacific Rim and
the Shadow of Sun Yatsen
Responding:
A24-340 Jonathan Tan, Case Western Reserve University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Theme: Yoga Across Boundaries: New Technologies and Changing
Practices
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Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level) Theme: Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem
Sravana Borkataky-Varma, University of North Carolina, Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Wilmington, Presiding Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West)
Panelists: Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual,
Matteo Di Placido, University of Milan - Bicocca Presiding
Derek Mills, YogaGlo, Santa Monica, CA Fulbright Scholar Victoria Rue at Dar Al Kalima University College
Darren Iammarino, San Diego Mesa College of Arts and Culture explores how the Biblical/Quranic figure of
Mary/Maryam expands or constricts Palestinian women’s identity in a
Responding: new play entitled Maryam: A Woman of Bethlehem.
Sthaneshwar Timalsina, San Diego State University Like a Rorschach test, Mary is used to talk about women’s lives.
Christa Kuberry, Yoga Alliance, Arlington, VA Some thirty Palestinian women and men from ages of 14 to 87 living
and working in the area of Bethlehem were interviewed including
Christians, Muslims, and others. From a university dean, Islamic
A24-341 CPR scholar, Lutheran theologian, architect and iconographer, to an eighth
grader, college student, and high school teacher, these Bethlehemites
Buddhist Pedagogy Seminar identify with Mary/Maryam as a source of solace, long-suffering,
Theme: Innovative Methods and Models for Teaching Buddhism indifference (“I never think of her”), empowerment and resistance.
Through stories, this play illuminates daily life in Occupied
Bethlehem, in which vulnerable, funny, and resilient people celebrate
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level) the strength of Palestinian women taking account of the intersections
Todd T. Lewis, College of the Holy Cross, Presiding of gender, culture and theology, representation and occupation.
Trung Huynh, University of Houston One hour in length, performed in Arabic with English subtitles,
Advocacy for Teaching Buddhist Courses in Public Schools the video is of the first performance of the play, January 25, 2019 in
Bethlehem. Following the video playwright Victoria Rue will open
Nathan McGovern, University of Wisconsin, Whitewater discussion. This is a co-sponsored offering by the Feminist Liberation
De-Coveraging the Introduction to Buddhism Class Theologians’ Network and the AAR/SBL Women’s Caucus.
John Nelson, University of San Francisco Panelists:
Campus Pilgrimage: A Walk into Buddhist Presence Victoria Rue, San Jose State University
Responding: Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College
Jonathan Young, California State University, Bakersfield
The standard science and religion discourse of the past fifty years takes
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 the categories of “science” and “religion” as given. Participants in this
round table discussion will use critical theories to consider the ethical,
political, and aesthetic implications of employing these categories in
order to move beyond these “doctrines and discoveries” (metaphysical
A24-344 and ontological) approaches. Panelists will engage the audience in
Theological Education Committee Meeting what is seen as the first in a series of conversations.
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Panelists will exchange and comment on short papers (4-5 pages)
available beforehand. To access and comment on these papers please
Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level)
visit sites.google.com/site/beyondreligionandsc or email srcdseries@gmail.com
Scott C. Alexander, Catholic Theological Union, Presiding
Panelists:
Zainal Abidin Bagir, Center for Religious and Cross-cultural
P24-300 CA Studies, Graduate School, Gadjah Mada University
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University
Karl Barth Society of North America Alison Lutz, Vanderbilt University
Theme: Discussing Dogmatics After Babel: Beyond Theologies of Word
Eduardo Mendieta, State University of New York, Stony Brook
and Culture (Westminster John Knox, 2018) by Rubén Rosario
Rodriguez Elaine Nogueira-Godsey, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
Sunday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Josh Reeves, Samford University
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level) Lisa L. Stenmark, San Jose State University
George Hunsinger, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding
This session will feature a roundtable discussion of Dogmatics After P24-301
Babel: Beyond Theologies of Word and Culture by Rubén Rosario
Rodriguez. GOCN Forum on Missional Hermeneutics
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Panelists: Theme: James Cone, Blackness, and Missional Hermeneutics

Paul D. Molnar, Saint John’s University Sunday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM
Orlando Espin, University of San Diego Marriott Marquis-Solana (South Tower - First Level)
Cambria Kaltwasser, Northwestern College Dennis Edwards, Northern Seminary, Presiding
Kevin Hector, University of Chicago In celebration of James Cone’s life and his theological contributions
Responding: over multiple decades, and especially in view of his final work, Said
I Wasn’t Gonna Tell Nobody, scholars in this session will reflect on
Ruben Rosario Rodriguez, Saint Louis University
the intersection (or lack thereof ) of Black theology and Missional/
Business Meeting: Intercultural Hermeneutics.
Keith Johnson, Wheaton College, Presiding Mark Glanville, Grandview Calvary Church, Vancouver, and
Missional Training Center, Phoenix
Reading Scripture Missionally in Light of James Cone’s Theology of the
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International Society for Science and Religion Boaz Rajkumar Johnson, North Park University
The Black Liberation Theology and Black Identity of James Cone and
Theme: The Future of “Science and Religion”: Beyond “Religion” the Dalit Liberation Theology and Dalit Identity of James Massey
and “Science”?
Joseph W. Caldwell, Union University
Reading Scripture While Reading Cone Reading Baldwin: A
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Theological Hermeneutical Lens on Biblical Suffering
Fifty years ago, Ian Barbour’s Issues in Religion and Science helped Responding:
launch today’s “science and religion” discourse. In the past two
decades, however, work in various disciplines (history, philosophy, Drew Hart, Messiah College
and the social sciences) shows that neither “religion” nor “science” are
fixed practices. Indeed, they reflect interests and biases that implicitly
privilege Western perspectives, including ideologies of colonialism,
racism, and sexism, to name but a few.
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La Comunidad of Hispanic Scholars of Religion
Theme: Voces Fronterizas: Perspectivas Descoloniales sobre (In)
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migración/ Borderlands Voices: Decolonized Perspectives About Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
(Im)migration Religion
Sunday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Theme: Doctoral Student Seminar Reunion Reception ‘19
Marriott Marquis-Pacific 26 (First Level) Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Loida I. Martell, Lexington Theological Seminary, and Sammy Convention Center-22 (Upper Level East)
Alfaro, Grand Canyon Theological Seminary, Presiding
Reception for participants in 2016–19 Wabash Teaching Seminars
(This session will be in Spanish) La cercanía a la frontera for Doctoral Students. By invitation only. More information:
estadounidense durante la reunión anual de la Academia Americana wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/aar-sbl-2019/doctoral-student-
de Religión (AAR) y la Sociedad de Literatura Bíblica (SBL) en seminar-reunion
2019 presenta una oportunidad para pensar sobre la frontera como el
espacio liminal entre dos horizontes. Las realidades socioeconómicas
en el sur y norte de la(s) frontera(s), productos de la explotación
capitalista, exigen un análisis descolonizador de sistemas, leyes y
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practicas que en ocasiones apelan a principios bíblicos y teológicos. La Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee
continua migración e inmigración de pueblos sufrientes y el afán por
construir muros divisorios — políticos, religiosos, así como físicos — Theme: Open Place to Talk
entre familias, comunidades e iglesias urgen una lectura descolonial de Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
textos y contextos. Con esto en mente, este panel de voces fronterizas Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level)
busca avanzar la conversación desde perspectivas descoloniales con el Kerry Danner, Georgetown University, and Edwin David Aponte,
fin de denunciar abusos y desplazamientos imperialistas. Louisville Institute, Presiding
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
The proximity of the US border during the annual meeting of the This informal discussion aims to provide unstructured space for
American Academy of Religion and the Society of Biblical Literature faculty, continent, tenure or tenured to talk about issues related to
in 2019 provides an opportunity to think about the border as the current challenges in academic labor. We also welcome programming
liminal space between two horizons. The socioeconomic realities or strategy ideas for the Academic Labor and Continent Faculty
south and north of the border(s), products of capitalistic exploitation, Working Group. Drop-in or stay for the full 90 minutes.
demand a decolonial analysis of systems, laws, and practices that at
times appeal to biblical and theological principles. The continued
migration and immigration of suffering peoples and the misguided
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physical—between families, communities and churches call for a Publications Committee
decolonial reading of texts and contexts.
Theme: How to Get Published (AAR/Oxford University Press)
With this in mind, this panel of borderlands voices seeks to advance
the conversation from decolonial perspectives with the aim of Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
denouncing imperialist abuses and displacements. Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Panelists: Cynthia Read, Oxford University Press, and Theodore Vial, Iliff
Ahida Pilarski, Saint Anselm College School of Theology, Presiding
Gregory Cuellar, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary This panel offers advice for publishing in general and specifically for
publishing in the AAR/Oxford University Press books series, JAAR,
Leticia Guardiola-Saenz, Seattle University and Reading Religion.
Responding: Panelists:
Jean-Pierre Ruiz, St. John’s University, New York Andrea Jain, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis
Margaret D. Kamitsuka, Oberlin College
Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University
John Nemec, University of Virginia
Karen Jackson-Weaver, Oxford University
Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich
Natalia Marandiuc, Southern Methodist University
Kimberly Davis, American Academy of Religion
Afro-American Religious History Unit
A24-403 FK Theme: Protest and Politics: A Fifty Year Retrospective on Black
Religion and 1969
Student Lounge Roundtable Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Surviving Theological Education Without Losing Your Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level)
Soul: Spiritual Practices for Students Alexis S. Wells-Oghoghomeh, Vanderbilt University, Presiding
Douglas Clark, Vanderbilt University
Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level) A Solid Black Hyphen: Gayraud Wilmore’s 1969 Defense of James
Our outward quest for success in higher education often comes at a Forman and the Black Manifesto
high cost to our interior life and we find ourselves exhausted, spread Jamie Pitts, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
thin, and wondering why we began this quest in the first place. This Black Studies as Black Religion: Vincent Harding, the Institute of the
roundtable session — appropriate for those of any worldview, will Black World, and the Movement “Deep into Blackness”
identify the deep needs at the core of your being, suggest practices
that nourish the well of creativity and life within you (which Matthew Harris, University of California, Santa Barbara
ironically brought you to higher education in the first place), and Rethinking How Space Became the Place: Sun Ra, Saturn, and Black
clarify the unique-to-you rhythms that keep the inner and outer Metaphysical Religion
parts of your life in balance. As informative as it is formative, this Responding:
session will leave you centered, refreshed, and inspired for the journey
Rosetta E. Ross, Spelman College
ahead. Come remember who you are and why you are here. Savoy
Stevens is a certified spiritual director and member of Spiritual
Directors International — an ecumenical and interfaith professional
organization. She has also completed postgraduate coursework in A24-406
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interfaith studies. Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit

Panelist: Theme: (Un)Making the Black Experience in Arts, Literature, and
Savoy Stevens, Campbell, CA Religion
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Lisa M. Allen, Interdenominational Theological Center, Presiding
African Diaspora Religions Unit Brian Foulks, Chicago Theological Seminary
Theme: Caribbean Intersections of African and Hindu Religious The (Un)Making within the Theo-Creative: Wrestling with James
Diasporas Baldwin and John Coltrane
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Brenton Brock, Princeton Theological Seminary
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level) A Burning Prophecy: Engaging the Conceptual Framework of “Fire”
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University, Presiding through the Works of James Baldwin
Randy Goldson, Temple University Debbie Brubaker, Vanderbilt University
Legitimating and Contesting Hindu Religious Permutations in Unmaking and Remaking Perception: Resistance in the Art of Betye
Jamaica Saar
Khytie Brown, Harvard University
Hindu Princess, Revival Jezebel: Sensing the Indian Spiritual Nation
in Jamaican Revival Zion Religion
Danielle Boaz, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Obeah, Vagrancy, and Spiritual Fraud: The Relationship between
African and Indian Religious Freedom in the 21st-Century Caribbean
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Buddhism Unit Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Theme: The Ambivalence of Buddhist Kingship Theme: The Flesh of Christ: Incarnation, Passion, and Liturgy
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level) Marriott Marquis-Presidio 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Michelle Wang, Georgetown University, Presiding Nicholas Adams, University of Birmingham, Presiding
Diego Loukota Sanclemente, University of California, Los Brendan Case, Duke University
Angeles Christ’s Flesh as a Reason for the Incarnation in Grosseteste,
Worth Half a Mango: On the Ridicule of Kings in Kumāralāta’s Bonaventure, and Aquinas
Garland of Examples Eric Mabry, Christ the King Seminary
Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University Passio Christi, Conforta Me: Horrors or Original Sin? Satisfaction
Loser God, Loser Prince, and Dice Cheat: the Tibetan Buddhist King and the Flesh of Christ
as an Ambivalent Figure Luke Zerra, Princeton Theological Seminary
Stephanie Lynn Balkwill, University of Winnipeg Attending to Practitioners: An Intervention into Debates on Liturgy
“Bewitched” or “Bewitching”: What is the Ling 靈 in the Empress and Moral Formation
Dowager’s Name?
April Hughes, Boston University
Wu Zhao (r. 690–705): Buddha, Emperor, Earthly Savior A24-410 @aareco2019 H
Class, Religion, and Theology Unit and Open and Relational
A24-408 U Theologies Unit and Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Can Religion Save the World? Beyond Capitalism,
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit Consumerism, and Systems of Exploitation Towards Ecological
Theme: Buddhist Chaplaincy: Friendship Through the Challenges Civilization
of Life Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East)
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Wm. Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Presiding
Barbra R. Clayton, Mount Allison University, Presiding Cherice Bock, The Oregon Extension
Monica Sanford, Rochester Institute of Technology Environmental Care in Action: Experiences of Seminary and
.DO\ƘΧDPLWUD: Spiritual Friendship as a Paradigm for Buddhist Divinity School Graduates from Environmentally Focused Programs
Chaplaincy Anthony Mansueto, El Centro College
Andrea Vecchione, North Bay Center for Compassionate Care Sanctuary and Commons: How Can Religion Contribute to Saving
Institute the World?
Life Is a Period of Itself; Death Is a Period of Itself: Shaping the Death Hunter Bragg, Drew University
and Dying Landscape: Zen Buddhist Compassionate/Contemplative “Can God Forgive Us?”: Christian Symbols and Marcuse’s Negation of
Care Programs and Their Impact on Hospice, Palliative Care, and the World
Chaplaincy Programs
Marie-Claire Klassen, University of Notre Dame
Grace G. Burford, Davidson College Laudato Si’, Decolonization, and Ecofeminism: A Case Study of the
Can Buddhism Contribute Positively to the Lives of North American Kinder Morgan Pipeline Project
Undergraduates? A Critical and Constructive Reflection on Buddhist
Chaplaincy for College Students Responding:
John B. Cobb, Center for Process Studies
Responding:
Wendy Cadge, Brandeis University
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Ecclesial Practices Unit
A24-411 Theme: What Really Matters (Pickwick, 2018) at the Intersection of
Ethnography and Theology
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Religion, Violence, and Technologies of Communication Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level)
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Jonas Ideström, Church of Sweden, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level) Panelists:
Kelly Denton-Borhaug, Moravian College, Presiding Tone Stangeland Kaufman, MF Norwegian School of Theology
L. Benjamin Rolsky, Rutgers University Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, Emmanuel College
Establishments and Their Fall: Direct Mail, the New Right, and the
Remaking of American Politics Kristina Helgesson Kjellin, Church of Sweden, Uppsala
University
Sara Kamali, University of Oxford Responding:
RaHoWa: White Nationalists Waging a Racial Holy War through
Social Media Peter Slade, Ashland University
Simon Mastrangelo, University of Bern
Justification of Violence on Facebook: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Portrayed as a Religious War
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Giulia Evolvi, Ruhr University Evangelical Studies Unit
Islamophobia on Twitter: Antagonistic Anti-Muslim Narratives about Theme: Critical Engagement with Emily Suzanne Johnson’s New
Brexit and Migration Book, This Is Our Message: Women’s Leadership in the New Christian
Right (Oxford University Press, 2019)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
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Comparative Religious Ethics Unit Anna Robbins, Acadia Divinity College, Presiding
Theme: Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics Panelists:
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Seth Dowland, Pacific Lutheran University
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Katelyn Beaty, Brazos Press
Jung Lee, Northeastern University, Presiding Karen Swallow Prior, Liberty University
Fred Glennon, Le Moyne College Michael McVicar, Florida State University
Using Jigsaw and Case Studies to Teach and Assess Comparative Responding:
Religious Ethics
Emily Johnson, Ball State University
Ross Moret, Florida State University
Teaching Comparative Religious Ethics through Student Group Site
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Responding:
Faraz Sheikh, College of William and Mary
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit and Religion and
Politics Unit and Sikh Studies Unit
Theme: The Racialization of Religion
Katharine Batlan, University of Alberta, Augustana, Presiding
Simranjit Khalsa, Rice University
Becoming American: Narratives of Marginalization and National
Identity among Sikhs in the US
Seth Gaiters, Ohio State University
BlackLivesMatter and Sacred Politics: Promiscuous Solidarities
Conjuring Justice
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Elisabeth Becker, Yale University
Black Muslim, White Muslim? Race, Religion, and the Color A24-418
Gradient in Contemporary America
Mormon Studies Unit
Tazeen Ali, Washington University, St. Louis
Towards a Collective American Muslim Consciousness: Building Theme: Unorthodox Conversion
Multiracial Community at the Women’s Mosque of America Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Marriott Marquis-Laguna (South Tower - First Level)
Amy Hoyt, University of the Pacific, Presiding
A24-416 #jainstudiesaar
Cristina Rosetti, University of California, Riverside
Jain Studies Unit and Tantric Studies Unit Becoming Queens and Priestesses: Women’s Conversion to Mormon
Theme: Genesis and Development of Jain Tantra Fundamentalism
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Joshua Wopata, University of Dayton
Cora Evans: Mormon Convert and Current Cause for Sainthood in
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level) the Catholic Church
John E. Cort, Denison University, Presiding
Kristen Tobey, John Carroll University
Samani Rohini Pragya, Florida International University Deciding to Stay: Misfit Mormons and Religious Leavetaking
Namaskāra Mahāmantra: Origin and Development Paradigms
Aaron Ullrey, University of California, Santa Barbara
Taming Tantra: Toning down Violent Ritual Results in the
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Michael Slouber, Western Washington University Mysticism Unit and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Situating the Jain Tantric Guide to Spells (Vidyānuśāsana)
Theme: Mystical Illness, Healing, and Madness
Venu Mehta, University of Florida
Making Jaina Tantric Cult of Padmāvatī Public in Gujarat Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Responding:
Kyrah Malika Daniels, Boston College, Presiding
Steven Vose, Florida International University
Stephen R. Lloyd-Moffett, California Polytechnic State
University, San Luis Obispo
A24-417 Madness and (of ) Mystics: Psychosis and the Mystical Experience
Jarrod Hyam, University of Sydney
Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Religion and Initiatory Illness among Nepali and American Traditional Healers
Migration Unit Dan Moseson, University of Utah
Theme: Seeking Refuge: Sanctuary Movements in a Global Micro-Dosing Mystical Experience: Mysticism and Healing in
Context Modern Medicine
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand, Middle Tennessee State University, A24-420
Presiding North American Religions Unit and Religion and Economy
Dejan Duric, University of Michigan Unit
Capturing the Legal Soul: Law, Life, and Liberation in the 1980s
Sanctuary Movement Theme: #CaptioningReligion: Characterizing the Material
Economies of Religion in the Americas
Deepak Sarma, Case Western Reserve University Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
An Asylum Case concerning Inter-caste Marriage, Hinduism, and
Hindu Politics Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
Cuilan Liu, University of Toronto Sally M. Promey, Yale University, Presiding
Clerical Immunity: A Failed Chinese Buddhist Campaign for Panelists:
Sanctuary Judith Ellen Brunton, University of Toronto
Richard Callahan, Gonzaga University
Kati Curts, Sewanee: The University of the South
Tracy Fessenden, Arizona State University
Sonia Hazard, Florida State University
Hillary Kaell, Concordia University, Montreal
Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto
Roxanne Korpan, University of Toronto
Kathryn Lofton, Yale University
Suzanne van Geuns, University of Toronto
Karen Rucks, Quinsigamond Community College
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 In Pursuit of African-American Female Pragmatists
Responding:
Cheryl Townsend Gilkes, Colby College
A24-421 Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University
Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Theme: Neoplatonism and the Theology of Aristotle
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Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level) Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Denial in the Midst of Cultural Crisis: Psychological and
Shatha Almutawa, Willamette University Religious Responses to Climate Change and Migration
Reading the Theology of Aristotle into the Qur’an: The Hermeneutics of Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
the Brethren of Purity Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East)
Syed Zaidi, Emory University Pamela Cooper-White, Union Theological Seminary, Presiding
Ibn Sīnā’s Conception of Light in His Commentary of the Theology Storm Swain, United Lutheran Seminary
of Aristotle Climate Crisis Denial: Symptoms of Trauma, or Splitting? Paradigms
Lydia Schumacher, King’s College, London Shifts in Pastoral Theology That Counter Denial, Promote Resilience,
The Theology of Aristotle and the Birth of Latin Scholasticism and Build Intersectional Community in Australia and America
Ryan LaMothe, Saint Meinrad School of Theology
A Tower of Babel: Obstacles and Distractions in Professional
A24-422 Organizations Addressing Climate Change
Political Theology Unit Karin Zirk, Pacifica Graduate Institute
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
We Already Have a Border Wall: The US/Mexican Border as Cultural

Theme: Political Theology and Patriarchy Complex
Responding:
Donna Orange, New York University
David Newheiser, Australian Catholic University, Presiding
Panelists:
Rachel Sophia Baard, Union Presbyterian Seminary A24-425
Larisa Reznik, Goucher College Queer Studies in Religion Unit and Religion in Premodern
Linn Tonstad, Yale University Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Le Moyne College Theme: Beyond Embodied Authority: Gender Performance in the
Kris Trujillo, University of Chicago Lives of Premodern Christian Holy Women
A24-423 #womanists@aar Wendy Love Anderson, Washington University in St. Louis,
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Presiding
Thought Unit and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Kathryn Phillips, University of California, Riverside
Society Unit The Disguised Saint: A Transgender Studies Approach to Matrona’s
Gender Presentation as a Eunuch
Theme: Womanist Theology, Sociality, and Subversive Praxis
Robert Porwoll, University of Chicago
Heloise and the Proto-Scholastic Abbess
C. Libby, Pennsylvania State University
Jason Springs, University of Notre Dame, Presiding (En)Gendering Feeling across Time
Jeanne Stevenson-Moessner, Southern Methodist University
Katie Geneva Cannon: Her Legacy to Pastoral and Practical
Theologians
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Michelle Marvin, University of Notre Dame
A24-426 C Memory Altering Technologies and the Capacity to Forgive:
Westworld and Volf in Dialogue
Religion and Food Unit
Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Theme: Food Access and the Value of Food Xiuzhen (Immortality Cultivation): Daoist Alchemy, Transhumanist
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Technology, and the Fiction beyond Neoliberalism
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level) Responding:
Rachel Gordon, University of Toronto, Presiding Henry Jenkins, University of Southern California
Eva Englert-Jessen, Hendrix College
Faith Communities and Food Access Issues: Deepening Our Approaches
Catherine Newell, University of Miami A24-429
Healthier Than Thou: Clean Eating, Moral Therapeutic Scientism, and Religion in South Asia Unit
Performative Virtue
Theme: New Directions in the Study of South Asian Religions
Hajung Lee, University of Puget Sound
Seeking Food Justice through Interreligious Food Activism: A Case
Study of South Korean Globalization of Its Food Market Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire L (Fourth Level)
Business Meeting: Elaine Fisher, Stanford University, Presiding
Derek Hicks, Wake Forest University, and Benjamin Zeller, Lake Avni Chag, SOAS University of London
Forest College, Presiding Configuring Sectarian Legitimacy through Eclecticism: A Case of the
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Heleen De Jonckheere, Ghent University
A24-427 #rpc “Where Mirrors Are Mirrored”: Different Versions of a Jain Satirical
Narrative
Religion and Popular Culture Unit
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Sophia Nasti, Harvard University
Theme: Subjects, Scholars, and Mediated Communities: New Reading Theology across Genres: 0ƘΧLNNDYƘFDNDUµV Tiruvācakam
Approaches to the Study of Religion and Popular Culture and Tirukkōvaiyār as Related Śaiva Projects
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Responding:
Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East) Vasudha Narayanan, University of Florida
Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri, Presiding
Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College
Cowboy Apocalypse: Transmediating the End A24-430
Kaitlyn Ugoretz, University of California, Santa Barbara Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit
Drawing on Shintō?: Online Shinto Communities’ Responses to the
Religious in Miyazaki Hayao’s Anime Theme: Religious Perspectives on White Genocide
David Feltmate, Auburn University, Montgomery
Towards a Theoretical Agenda in Religion and Popular Culture Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Studies Benjamin Sax, Institute for Islamic, Christian, and Jewish Studies,
Presiding
Martin Lund, Malmö University
A24-428 S Magneto, Ms. Marvel, and Other Monsters: The Superhero Genre and
“White Genocide” Rhetoric
Religion and Science Fiction Unit and Science, Technology,
and Religion Unit and Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science Weaver Taylor, University of Kent
The Italian Far-Right and Ethno-Nationalism: Espositoan Readings
Theme: The Nuts and Bolts of Transformation: A Zygon of Immunitarian Regimes
Roundtable on Science Fiction’s Imagined Technologies and the
Civic Imagination Kate Temoney, Montclair State University
“Race is My Religion!” and “White Genocide”
Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East) Responding:
Emanuelle Burton, University of Illinois, Chicago, Presiding Biko Gray, Syracuse University
Ytasha Womack, Chicago, IL
Afrofuturism: Elements of New Thought, Metaphysics, the Divine
Feminine, and African Diasporic Spirituality in Shaping New
Futures
Mladen Turk, Elmhurst College
Techno-Scientific Imagination as a Tool of World Creation in Grant
Morrison’s The Invisibles
Nathan Schradle, University of North Carolina
Silicon Salvation: Magical Thinking and Superintelligent A.I.
Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit
A24-431 C Theme: Unfolding the Scroll: Ethics and the Materiality of Sacred
Texts
Religious Conversions Unit Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Religious Conversion and Natural Disasters Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level)
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Tyler Atkinson, Bethany College, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level) Michael Mawson, University of Aberdeen
Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University, Presiding Living with the Forms of the Word: Bonhoeffer, Rosenzweig, and the
Michael T. McLaughlin, Old Dominion University Materiality of Scripture
Conversion and The Vulnerable Life in the Philippines: Resilience or Jason von Ehrenkrook, University of Massachusetts
Just “Going on”? The Scepter and the Sword: Scriptural Materiality and Presidential
Celucien Joseph, Indian River State College Power
Natural Evil and Disasters and Haitian Response toward Religious Responding:
Belief and Spiritual Conversion Emily Filler, Earlham College
Maria T. Davila, Merrimack College Business Meeting:
“Faith, Science, and Maria Walk into a Bar...”: Puerto Rico, Hurricane
Maria, and the Narrative of Conversions Tyler Atkinson, Bethany College, Presiding
Responding:
Terry Rey, Temple University A24-434 #islamaar
Business Meeting: Study of Islam Unit
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Cody Musselman, Yale University, Presiding Theme: Islam and Governmentality: From Modern Kingship to
Contemporary Prison Regimes
A24-432 Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Ritual Studies Unit and Women and Religion Unit Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston, Presiding
Theme: Making Motherhood: Ritual Narratives of Pregnancy and Jocelyn Hendrickson, University of Alberta
Its Perils Let’s Pretend: French-Sponsored Taqiyya in Colonial West Africa
Arianne Ekinci, University of North Carolina
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level) Stripping “Muslim” from Uyghur Cultural Heritage: Islam as
Andrea Dara Cooper, University of North Carolina, Presiding Oppression and the Justification for State-Led Development in
Ann Duncan, Goucher College Xinjiang during the Early PRC
Radical Inclusion and Inevitable Exclusion in the Sacred Living Rebecca Makas, Villanova University
Movement Access to Islamic Texts While Incarcerated: A Report from
Millicent Feske, Saint Joseph’s University Pennsylvania
The Sense of an Ending: The Role of Ritual in Pregnancy Loss and Responding:
Newborn Death Kathleen Foody, College of Charleston
Haley Petersen, University of North Carolina
The Specter of Motherhood: Supernatural Trauma and/in the Female
Body in Japan’s Modern Ubume Boom
Responding:
Colleen D. Hartung, Holy Wisdom Monastery
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Study of Judaism Unit Yogācāra Studies Unit
Theme: Jewish Law and Theology at the Limits of Scientific Theme: Cheng weishi lun Across East Asian Yogācāra: Philosophy
Reasoning and Tradition
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level)
Nechama Juni, Brown University, Presiding Dan Lusthaus, Harvard University, Presiding
Samuel Kessler, Gustavus Adolphus College Ernest Brewster, Harvard University
Writing about God in an Age of Science: Kaufmann Kohler’s Outline Thusness as Cognitive Object (Ālambana) in the Cheng weishi lun
of a Systematic Theology of Judaism on a Historical Basis (1910) Nobuyoshi Yamabe, Waseda University
Irit Offer Stark, New York University Do Sense Perceptions Operate in Deep Meditation?: An Examination
Pragmatism and Jewish Thought of a Passage on Meditative Experience in Cheng weishi lun
Bar Guzi, Brandeis University Sumi Lee, Dongguk University
Jewish Theology and the Naturalistic Command of Science: Three The Cheng weishi lun and the Emptiness-Existence Controversy
Twentieth-Century Attempts at Conciliation Ronald S. Green, Coastal Carolina University
Gomyō’s Use of the Cheng weishi lun and Japanese Hossō’s Refutation
of Him
A24-436 Shigeki Moro, Hanazono University
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit Maintainers of a Destroying World: A Doctrinal Discussion on Cheng
weishi lun in the Japanese Rongi Tradition
Theme: The Powers of Gentleness and the Limits of the Human
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Karen Bray, Wesleyan College, Presiding
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Buddhist Pedagogy Seminar
Eric Meyer, Carroll College
On Gentleness, Carnivory, and the Violence of God Theme: Contemplation in the Buddhist Studies Classroom
Beatrice Marovich, Hanover College
Shelters for the Dead and Space for the Living: Political Theology, Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level)
Gentleness, and Extinction Beverley Foulks McGuire, University of North Carolina,
Elizabeth Pyne, Fordham University Wilmington, Presiding
To Live Gently, To End Well: Queer Kinship beyond the Anthropocene Julie Regan, La Salle University
Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin Experiments with Buddhist Forms of Thought, Action, and Practice in
A Gentle Reminder of the Earth: Sensual Theopoetics in Deep Time the Classroom
and the Expanded Present Anna Lannstrom, Stonehill College
Let’s Be Buddhists for the Next Few Weeks! Costs and Benefits of
Making Students Explore Buddhism from the Inside
A24-437 K Peter M. Romaskiewicz, University of California, Santa Barbara
Meditation in the Classroom: A Pedagogical Defense for the Practice of
Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit Religious Ritual?
Theme: Teaching Islam and Muslim Studies: Cross-Disciplinary
Responding:
and Anti-Disciplinary Orientations to Pedagogies in North
American Academia Ben Van Overmeire, Duke Kunshan University
Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding
Panelists:
Shaista Patel, University of California, San Diego
Shehnaz Haqqani, Mercer University
Nadeen Kharputly, University of California, San Diego
Merin Shobhana Xavier, Queen’s University
Sarah Eltantawi, Evergreen State College
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-442 A
A24-440 SCR Theme: Beyond Reductionism: Applying and Adjusting Robert
Orsi’s Metric of Presence Across Religions
Contextualizing the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis Seminar Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Centering Survivors: Contextualizing Clergy Sexual Abuse Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level)
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Brenna Moore, Fordham University, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Nancy M. Martin, Chapman University
Megan McCabe, Gonzaga University, Presiding Encountering Presence in Twentieth-Century India: Indira Devi
Cristina L. H. Traina, Northwestern University Meets Mirabai
Fantasizing Equality: Theology of the Body as a Spirituality of Abuse Corinne Dempsey, Nazareth College
Beena Poulose Kallely, Graduate Theological Union Making Presence Palatable: Sacred Encounters Among the Elderly
A Restorative Justice Response to the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis in Across Cultures
India Easten Law, Georgetown University
Jennifer Beste, College of Saint Benedict Mapping Everyday Interreligious Encounters Among Chinese
The Missing Piece: Children’s Justice as the Focus for Responding to the Christians in Shanghai and Hong Kong
Clergy Abuse Crisis Francis X. Clooney, Harvard University
Ana Lourdes Suarez, Universidad Católica Argentina Orsi’s History and Presence in Light of Rāmānuja’s Understanding
The #MeToo Movement in Latin American Nuns and Ex-Nuns of Real Presence
Kaya Oakes, University of California, Berkeley Karma Lekshe Tsomo, University of San Diego
Forgiveness Redefined in Clergy Sexual Abuse The Extraordinary Presence of the Ordinary
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24

Brian Clites, Case Western Reserve University, and Megan Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University
McCabe, Gonzaga University, Presiding
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New Perspectives on Religion in the Philippines Seminar Theme: The Art of Writing AAR Proposals
Theme: New Perspectives on Colonialism, Religious Corporations, Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
and Indigenous Christianity in the Philippines Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level)
Sunday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Have you been struggling to get proposals accepted to the AAR
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire E (Fourth Level) Annual Meeting? Come to this session to get some tips and ideas
Deirdre de la Cruz, University of Michigan, Presiding about how to better frame your research to increase your chances of
acceptance. The presenter, Elissa Cutter, has been reviewing proposals
Albert Shannon G. Toribio, University of California, Santa as part of the Religion in Europe unit since 2012. As a current chair
Barbara of that unit, she now has several years of experience in reviewing
Re-Examining the Iglesia ni Cristo: Building a Church Through the proposals and forming sessions. In this session, she will let you
Words of the Sugo know some of the main pitfalls that people fall into in writing their
Scott MacLochlainn, University of Michigan conference proposals and how best to avoid them
Of Congregations and Corporations: Capitalist Logics and the Panelist:
Freedoms of Religion in the Philippines
Elissa Cutter, Georgian Court University
David Gowey, Arizona State University
Colonial Inheritances: Religious Dialogues in the Philippine-
American War
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Sunday, 7:00 PM and Later
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Theta Alpha Kappa Annual Meeting and Reception
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Hilton Bayfront-206 (Second Level) Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and
Theta Alpha Kappa, the National Honor Society for Religious Studies Religion
and Theology, invites faculty chapter representatives and members to Theme: Dinner for New Teachers
attend our annual meeting which is preceded by a brief reception. Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Convention Center-6E (Upper Level West)
P24-402 By invitation only, new teachers will join together for an elegant
dinner and directed table conversations about the first year of
Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought teaching. More information: wabashcenter.wabash.edu/programs/aar-
Theme: American Journal of Theology and Philosophy - Annual sbl-2019/dinner-for-new-teachers
Lecture
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Panelist: Reading Religion Editorial Board Meeting
Dan Arnold, University of Chicago Sunday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Sarah Levine, American Academy of Religion, and Kimberly Davis,
P24-403 American Academy of Religion, Presiding
Religious Education Association
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Theme: Scholar, Teacher, Administrator: The Case of the P24-500
Religious Educator as Dean
Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:00 PM 12 Step Recovery Support Meeting
Marriott Marquis-Vista (South Tower - First Level) Sunday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Mary E. Hess, Luther Seminary, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Is administrative leadership in your future? We often do not have
specialized preparation for such administrative duties, but we bring
the excellence of our scholarly training and experience to bear on A24-504
whatever tasks we undertake and decisions we make. What are the Religion in South Asia Unit
challenges of blending the identities of teacher, scholar, and dean?
Four deans with advanced degrees in education as well as religion Theme: In Memoriam: Anne Monius
bring distinct and intriguing insights to a lively discussion probing Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
leadership among colleagues and within institutions. Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West)
This session is an opportunity to connect with the Religious Sarah Pierce Taylor, University of Chicago, and Hamsa Stainton,
Education Association, a related scholarly organization of the McGill University, Presiding
AAR. We value interdisciplinary and intercultural research at the
This session is dedicated to the memory of Anne
intersections of religion and education (see religiouseducation.net).
Monius, Professor of South Asian Religions at Harvard
Panelists: Divinity School. Panelists will speak to different facets
Faustino Cruz, Fordham University of Anne’s life and celebrate her impact as a friend,
Leah Gunning Francis, Christian Theological Seminary colleague, and teacher at both the University of Virginia
and Harvard University. The session will also include an
Sheryl A. Kujawa-Holbrook, Claremont School of Theology, Anne Monius opportunity for members of the audience to share their
Claremont Graduate University memories of Anne.
Javier Viera, Drew University Theological School Panelists:
Rebecca Manring, Indiana University
Gregory Clines, Trinity University
John Nemec, University of Virginia
Sophia Nasti, Harvard University
Elizabeth Mary Rohlman, University of Calgary
Charles Hallisey, Harvard University
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 A24-503 L
Film: The Gate
A24-501 M Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Arts Series: Spirit in the Dark Body: Black Queer Robert H. Stockman, Indiana University, South Bend, Presiding
Expressions of the Immaterial
The Gate is a documentary about Ali Muhammad of Shiraz (1819–
Sunday, 8:00 PM–9:30 PM 50), who took the title of “The Bab” (“The Gate”) when he began
Omni-Gallery 2 (Gallery Building - across the street from the main a messianic ministry on May 23, 1844 in Iran. During a 6-year
hotel entrance on L Street) period he penned over a thousand works on God, revelation, and
This photography exhibition explores black queer spirituality in the reorganization of society. He stressed the coming of “He Whom
its various forms of embodiment, ritual, meditative practices, and God Would Make Manifest,” another messianic figure who would
religious devotion in order to give articulation to the spirit that appear shortly. His movement was severely persecuted, resulting in the
moves in and through black bodies. “Dark bodies” speaks not only to death of thousands of his followers, including the Bab himself. The
race, but to darkness as a symbol for the subversion of intentionally Babi Faith was succeeded by the Baha’i Faith when Mirza Husayn
inhabiting mystery. This mystery is reflected in terms of sexuality ‘Ali, titled Baha’u’llah, claimed to be “He Whom God Will Make
— queerness — as well as of spirituality. Each of the twelve photos Manifest” and was accepted by the vast majority of the Babis. “The
includes a curatorial statement that utilizes the words of the featured Gate” was made to commemorate the bicentenary of the Bab’s birth
spiritual devotees as a narrative that illumines their approaches to on October 20, 1819, and features narration by six academics familiar
spiritual practice, being, and becoming. Their narrative is placed in with the Bab’s writings and claims.
conversation with Spirit in the Dark: A Religious History of Racial
Aesthetics by African American Studies and Religion scholar, Josef
Sorett, and singer Aretha Franklin’s “Spirit in the Dark” to explore
themes of sacredness, profanity, and spirituality that both affirms and
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
re-imagines framings of Afro-diasporic spiritualities.

Panelist:
Elyse Ambrose, Drew University
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Film: Santuario: Sanctuary and Social Movements in
Documentary Film
Pilar Timpane, Durham, NC, Presiding
Since 2016, a re-emergence of the sanctuary movement has arisen
in the U.S. and abroad. Santuario (2018) is an award-winning short
documentary film that follows Juana Luz Tobar Ortega, the first
woman to take sanctuary in North Carolina in the recent movement.
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This panel will include substantial time for audience Q&A and
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 discussion. Please join us to share your thoughts!
Panelists:
A25-1 G Giulia Hoffman, University of California, San Diego

Program Committee Maren Wood, Beyond the Professoriate, Denver, CO
Theme: Program Unit Chairs’ Breakfast
Monday, 7:15 AM–8:45 AM
Convention Center-6A (Upper Level West) A25-102 M
Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession
Program Unit Chairs are invited to a breakfast featuring information Committee
on upcoming program initiatives and celebrating their contributions Theme: Expressions of Disability and Faith Through the Arts
to the AAR Annual Meeting. Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Darla Schumm, Hollins University, Presiding
This interactive session explores ways in which disability and Deaf
A25-100 PK experience can inform expressions of culture, art, and religion. Artists
with disabilities, Deaf artists, and scholars will engage in performance,
Academic Relations Committee display, and discussion on the intersection of religion, spirituality,
Theme: What Counts and Who’s Counting? Religious Studies and disability, culture, and the arts. Art work will be performed and on
Theology Programs by the Numbers exhibit during the session. Artists will be invited to share their creative
process in producing their various arts and discuss how it conveys
their thoughts and experiences.
Panelists:
Noel King, San Diego, CA
Religious studies and theology programs in the United States are
often measured internally by numbers of majors or students in Claudia Jimenez, San Diego, CA
departmental courses. But, did you know that institutions also report Darian Goldin Stahl, Concordia University
on our majors to governmental agencies? This interactive workshop Responding:
will explore the current state of religious studies programs in the U.S.
Kirk VanGilder, Gallaudet University
using current government data. Attendees will engage with trend data,
discuss how the numbers are generated, and learn what they mean Devan Stahl, Michigan State University
for scholars and programs of religion and theology. The conversation
will focus on the strengths and weaknesses of degree production as an
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
indicator, as well as and other methodologies for evaluating fields and A25-103 (=S25-122)
disciplines so that religious studies advocates can best leverage and/or
respond to data in higher education. Augustine and Augustinianisms Unit and SBL Development
Panelist: of Early Christian Theology Unit
Joshua Patterson, American Academy of Religion Theme: Augustine and Paul
A25-101 FPK Erin Galgay Walsh, Duke University, Presiding
Applied Religious Studies Committee Lora Walsh, University of Arkansas
How Epistles Became Gospels: Augustine and His Heirs on Paul’s
Theme: Career Services for Non-Academic Careers
Castration Outburst (Gal 5:12)
Sean Hannan, MacEwan University
Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East) Augustine, Gregory of Nyssa, and the “Stretchiness” of Paul in
Amy Defibaugh, Temple University, Presiding Philippians 3:13-14
When humanities scholars talk about exploring and pursuing “alt-ac” Thomas McGlothlin, Christian Academy in Japan
and “post-ac” careers, two concerns often dominate the conversation: 1) Paul in Augustine on Resurrection
Graduate studies in the humanities don’t prepare us for or aren’t relevant
to non-academic career paths, and 2) We don’t know where to look Alexander Pierce, University of Notre Dame
for or how to apply for non-academic jobs. Whether you are a scholar Human Righteousness as a Work of God: Paul’s Epistles and
thinking about non-academic careers or a faculty member interested in Cooperative Causality in de spiritu et littera (412/13)
supporting students engaged in such searches, join our panel of career Responding:
services experts to discuss the many careers that are open to — and Michael Cameron, University of Portland
even looking for! — people with advanced training in the humanities.
Panelists will discuss existing resources and where to find them, as well
as ways that departments, universities, and professional organizations
like the AAR can better support scholars in non-academic careers.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-107
Contemporary Islam Unit and Religion, Media, and Culture
A25-104 C Unit
Theme: Popular Preachers, Gendered Authority, and the Digital
Christian Systematic Theology Unit Ummah
Theme: Grace — Triune, Eschatological, and Emplaced: Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Dialogues with Hans Urs von Balthasar Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level)
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Samah Choudhury, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Jacquelene Brinton, University of Kansas
Nicholas Adams, University of Birmingham, Presiding From National Television to YouTube: Shaykh Sha’rawi, Zakir Naik,
Christopher Hadley, Santa Clara University and Gendered Religious Authority in the Age of Mass Media
Balthasar’s Trinity and Eschatological Grace Garrett Kiriakos-Fugate, Boston University
Junius Johnson, Baylor University Yasir Qadhi, Homosexuality, and Preaching an Islamic Masculine
Selfless Communication and Selfless Welcome: Trinitarian Dynamics Heterosexuality
as a Map for Grace in Hans Urs von Balthasar Abtsam Saleh, Harvard University
Jacob Lett, MidAmerica Nazarene University NAKscandal: Nouman Ali Khan and the Rhetoric of Authority in
Emplaced Theosis: Spatial Categories and the Divine in Hans Urs von Digital Space
Balthasar Brittany Landorf, Emory University
Responding: Becoming the Alpha Muslim: Popular Da3i, Men’s Rights Activists,
and the Emergent Muslim Manosphere
Cyril O’Regan, University of Notre Dame
Business Meeting: Faiza Rahman, Emory University
Khanum Tayyiba Bukhari on TV: Anti-Shia Violence and Shia
Junius Johnson, Baylor University, Presiding Female Propriety in Contemporary Pakistan
Responding:
A25-106 James Hoesterey, Emory University

Theme: A Comparative Roundtable: Motherhood and Mothering
Across Religious Traditions
A25-108 C
Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit
Theme: Redefining Difference: Naming, Classifying, and
Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level) Confronting Culture with Hip Hop
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas, Presiding Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM

Panelists: Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level)
Pascale Engelmajer, Carroll University Jon Gill, Pomona College, Presiding
Marianne Delaporte, Sacred Beginnings Workshops Charrise Barron, Brown University
Valentina Gaddi, Université de Montréal Kanye West and Snoop Dogg: Making Christianity Cool Again
Peter Faggen, University of Chicago Harjeet Grewal, University of Calgary
Giulia Pedrucci, University of Erfurt Political Hip-Hop of Diasporic Sikhs: Sovereignty and Militant
Ethics
Anna Hennessey, Institute of Buddhist Studies
Sucharita Sarkar, D.T.S.S College of Commerce Yasmina Burezah, University of Bonn
“Kanake” as the German N-Word? German Hip-Hop and the
Responding: Production of a Post-Migration Identity in the Face of Racialist
Florence Pasche Guignard, Ryerson University Islamophobic Discrimination
Business Meeting:
Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, Presiding
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A25-109 C A Windmill, Its Godfather, and Its Guardian Angel: Material
Religion and Community in the California Missions
Ecclesial Practices Unit
David Maldonado Rivera, Kenyon College
Theme: Ethnography, Theology, and Intersectionality The Remains of Spain: La Biblia del Oso, Civic Catholicism and
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Contending Hispanicities in Puerto Rico 1898–1922
Theodore Hickman-Maynard, Boston University, Presiding
A25-112 C
“Feminist” Fundraising?: Women’s Economic Practices and Christian Human Enhancement and Transhumanism Unit
Stewardship Theme: Enhancement Now: Biohacking or Preserving Human
Perzavia Praylow, Lenoir-Rhyne University Bodies?
Carrying the Load: Black Women Ruling Elders and the Enduring Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Mission and Sustainability of African American Presbyterian
Churches in Rural South Carolina Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level)
Amy Michelle DeBaets, Oakland University, Presiding
Janna Hunter-Bowman, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Seminary
Tracing Borders of Constraint as Intersectional Analysis John Borchert, Syracuse University
We Have Never Been Human: Transhuman Embodiments and Utopia
Responding: in American Religious History
Nancy J. Ramsay, Texas Christian University Jeremy F. Cohen, McMaster University
Business Meeting: Live Long Enough to Live Forever: Performance, Power, and the
Natalie Wigg-Stevenson, Emmanuel College, Presiding Creation of Immortal Bodies
Jacob Boss, Indiana University
Punks and Profiteers in the War on Death
A25-110 C Melanie Dzugan, Fuller Theological Seminary
Ethics Unit Mandating an Attitude of Preservation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the
Challenges of the Therapy/Enhancement Debate
Theme: The Ethics of Sanctuaries, Borders and Asylum
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Business Meeting:
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level) Ronald S. Cole-Turner, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary,
Presiding
Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Irene Ludji, Claremont Graduate University
The Heart of Sanctuary Movement and the Ethics of Solidarity A25-113 C
Brian Lee, Princeton University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Abolishing Slavery, Abolishing ICE: A Model from the Nineteenth-
Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Unit
Century for Religious Abolitionists Today Theme: Decolonizing and Resetting the Interfaith Table
Tom Berendt, Temple University Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
The Sanctity of Sanctuaries: An Analysis of the Role of Religion in Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level)
Offering Animals Sanctuary Feryal Salem, American Islamic College, Presiding
Business Meeting: Valeria Vergani, University of Toronto
Christophe D. Ringer, Chicago Theological Seminary, and A Space and Time for Sovereignty: Indigenous Peoples at the
Frederick Simmons, Princeton Theological Seminary, Presiding Parliament of the World’s Religions and the Question of Inclusion
Aaron Ghiloni, Charles Sturt University
An Islamopolitan Strategy for Decolonizing Interreligious Studies
A25-111 #aarhcs Henry Millstein, Islamic Networks Group, San Jose, CA
History of Christianity Unit and Latina/o Religion, Culture, Decolonizing Interreligious Education: The Example of Islamic
and Society Unit and Religion, Memory, History Unit Networks Group (ING)
Theme: Contesting Memory and Materiality in the Borderlands Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
Decolonizing of the Study of Religion: Interreligious Studies as a
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Theoretical Intervention
Responding:
Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, Presiding
Santiago H. Slabodsky, Hofstra University
Brandon Bayne, University of North Carolina
Confronting the Borderland Padres: Comparing and Contesting the Business Meeting:
Memorialization of Fathers Junipero Serra and Eusebio Kino Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary, and John
Sheveland, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry, University of Texas
Recording the Mesoamerican Past: Indigenous Religions in the
Relaciones Geograficas of 1577–1585
Kenny Schmitt, Al-Quds Bard College
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Gazan Christian Pilgrimage: Sacred Practice or Means of Escape?
Rachel Scott, Virginia Tech
Christian Communal Autonomy, State Law, and Islamic Law:
A25-114 C Divorce and Remarriage among Coptic Christians
Islamic Mysticism Unit Business Meeting:
Theme: Sufism, Political Engagement, and Social Reform Jason R. Zaborowski, Bradley University, Presiding
Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University, Presiding
A25-116 C
Music and Religion Unit
Ali Karjoo-Ravary, Bucknell University
Shadowing the True Kings: Sufism and Monarchy in 14th-Century Theme: Diverse Theologies of Music
Islam Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Parisa Zahiremami, University of Toronto Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Bridging Sufism and Kingship: Sanā’ī’s Sufi Advice as a Form of David Stowe, Michigan State University, Presiding
Cultural Capital Brian A. Butcher, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of
Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, Princeton University Eastern Christian Studies, Toronto
From Transformation to Isolation: Ibn Bājja and Ibn ΚXID\O on the “ You Have Given Us the Grace to Pray Together in Harmony”:
Mystic as Political Dissident Orthodox Liturgical Singing as a Criterion for Theological Aesthetics
Theodore Dedon, Georgetown University Leila Chamankhah, University of Dayton
The People of Perfection inside and against the Empire: ‘Abd al-Ghanī Music, Entertainment, and Amusement: Contemporary ShīȾa
al-Nābulusī and the Possibility of a Social Jihād Jurisprudence and the Problematic of Worldly Pleasure
John Thibdeau, University of California, Santa Barbara Octavio Carrasco, Union Theological Seminary
“The Zawiya Is in the UN”: The Role of Charity and Social Action in The Concert That Killed the Sixties: Altamont, Religiosity, and the
the Tariqa Alawiyya Rolling Stones
Responding: Lisa M. Allen, Interdenominational Theological Center
Tehseen Thaver, Princeton University Over My Head, I Hear Music in the Air: African Inheritance and
Interconnections in Spirituals, Blues, and Gospel Music
Business Meeting:
Business Meeting:
Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University, and Cyrus
Zargar, University of Central Florida, Presiding Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University, and Alisha L. Jones,
Indiana University, Presiding
CW
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
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Middle Eastern Christianity Unit
A25-117 C
New Religious Movements Unit
Theme: Middle Eastern Christians in Public Life: Pre-Modern and
Modern Test Cases Theme: The Future of “New Religious Movements”
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-11A (Upper Level West) Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level)
Deanna Womack, Emory University, Presiding Megan Goodwin, Northeastern University, Presiding
Mourad Takawi, University of Notre Dame Panelists:
Envisioning Christian-Muslim Relations in the Early Islamic Period: Catherine Wessinger, Loyola University, New Orleans
A Case for Mutual Attraction Sean McCloud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Stephen J. Shoemaker, University of Oregon Ahmad Greene-Hayes, Princeton University
The Passion of Peter of Capitolias (d. 715) and Christian-Muslim
Relations in the Early Caliphate Biko Gray, Syracuse University
Sarah M. Pike, California State University, Chico
David Freidenreich, Colby College
Appeals to Anti-Jewish Tropes in Christian Texts about Early Jason C. Bivins, North Carolina State University
Muslims Benjamin Zeller, Lake Forest College
Torang Asadi, Duke University
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Rebecca Moore, San Diego State University
Clarence Hardy, Fairfield University A25-120 A
Business Meeting: Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit and Religions,
Megan Goodwin, Northeastern University, and Lydia Willsky- Medicines, and Healing Unit
Ciollo, Fairfield University, Presiding Theme: Meditation, Buddhism, and Mental Health: State of the
Field
A25-118 SC Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Nineteenth Century Theology Unit C. Pierce Salguero, Pennsylvania State University, Abington,
Theme: F. H. Jacobi and Nineteenth-Century Religious Thought Presiding
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Panelists:
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level) Kin Cheung, Moravian College
Emily Dumler-Winckler, Saint Louis University, Presiding Francisca Cho, Georgetown University
Christian Danz, Universität Wien Franz Aubrey Metcalf, California State University, Los Angeles
Inedible Gods. Jacobi and the Controversies about the Divine in the William Parsons, Rice University
“Sattelzeit der Moderne”
Responding:
Alexander J.B. Hampton, University of Toronto
Jacobi and Romantic Religion Ira Helderman, Vanderbilt University
Wakoh Shannon Hickey, Notre Dame of Maryland University
George Di Giovanni, McGill University
Jacobi and the Poets
Jörg Lauster, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
The Power of Intuition: Jacobi’s Impact on Theology and Religious
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Thought Religion and Ecology Unit
Business Meeting: Theme: Whose Earth Reconsidered: James Cone and Ecological
Zachary Purvis, University of Göttingen, and Sheila Briggs, Justice
University of Southern California, Presiding Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Melanie L. Harris, University of Denver, Presiding
A25-119 Tyson-Lord Gray, New York University
Philosophy of Religion Unit Am I My Brother’s Keeper? Ecological Ethics in the 21st Century
Theme: Philosophy of Islam and Islamic Philosophy: What Is the Tyler Tully, University of Oxford
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Difference and Why Does It Matter? The Extraction of Flesh in Trump’s America: Extending
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Environmental Racism beyond Toxic Encroachment
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Ryan Juskus, Duke University
From Resourcing the Margins to “Ressourcement from the Margins”:
Iman AbdoulKarim, Presiding
Attending to the Outpouring of Life and Power in a Natural Resource
Loumia Ferhat, Johns Hopkins University Economy’s Sacrifice Zones
Islamic Philosophy and Philosophia in Islam through the Lens of
Ghazālī Responding:
Christopher Carter, University of San Diego
Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College
Frameworks for Critiquing Gender, Race, and Class Hierarchies in
Feminist Philosophy of Islam
Caner Dagli, College of the Holy Cross
The Culture of Ultimate Questions
Nora Jacobsen Ben Hammed, University of Chicago
Genre-Bending and Discipline Defying: The Philosophical Poetry of
Fakhr al-Dīn al-Rāzī (d. 606/1210)
Muhammad Faruque, Fordham University
A Philosophy of “Self ” in Islam, or an Islamic Philosophy of “Self ?”
What Is the Difference and Who Cares?
Nicholas Boylston, Harvard University
The Primacy of Being between Assent and Conception: Some
Ramifications of the Insider-Outsider Problem in Islamic Philosophy
Responding:
Oludamini Ogunnaike, College of William and Mary
Business Meeting:
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, and Sarah Pierce Taylor,
Concordia University, Presiding
A25-122 #rpc C A25-124 CA

Theme: Utopias, Dystopias, and Golden States: Pop Culture in the Religion in the American West Unit
Time of Apocalypse Theme: Laurie Maffly-Kipp Retrospective Roundtable
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East) Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level)
Martin Shuster, Goucher College, Presiding Amanda Hendrix-Komoto, University of Michigan, Presiding
Panelists: Panelists:
Ada Jaarsma, Mount Royal University Carleigh Beriont, Harvard University
Lissa Skitolsky, Dalhousie University Brandi Denison, University of North Florida
Alfred Frankowski, Southern Illinois University Philip K. Goff, Indiana University - Purdue University,
La Jerne Terry Cornish, Ithaca College Indianapolis
James South, Marquette University Greg Johnson, University of Colorado
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University Michel Sunhae Lee, University of Texas
Ailish Hopper, Goucher College Kathryn Gin Lum, Stanford University
Business Meeting: Quincy D. Newell, Hamilton College
Rabia Gregory, University of Missouri, and Elijah Siegler, College Responding:
of Charleston, Presiding Laurie Maffly-Kipp, Washington University, Saint Louis
Business Meeting:
A25-123 CA Brennan Keegan, Randolph College, Presiding
Religion in South Asia Unit and Religion in Southeast Asia

Unit A25-125 (=S25-109)
Theme: History and Presence in Asia: Applying Robert Orsi’s Religion, Film, and Visual Culture Unit and SBL Bible and
Theory of “Real Presence” to the Study of Asian Religions Film Unit
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Theme: Terrifying and Transformative Bodies: From Exodus to
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level) Modern Films

Simona Lazzerini, Stanford University, Presiding Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Aleksandra Restifo, Yale University Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East)
The Presence of the Jina: Aesthetic Performance and the Significance of Matthew Rindge, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Pleasure
Caryn Tamber-Rosenau, University of Houston
Murad Mumtaz, Williams College The Goddess in the Exodus: Nina Paley’s Seder-Masochism and the
“Wheresoever You Turn…”: Muslim Saints as Manifestations of God Female Divine in Israel
in Indian Miniature Painting
Joshua Canzona, Wake Forest University
Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Lust and Weibermacht in Biblical Film
Nats, Jesus, and Other Spirits in 19th-Century Burma
Jordan Conley, Boston University
Susanne Kerekes, Williams College A Woman’s Place Is in the Home: The Material, Spatial, and Agential
Beseeching a 19th-Century General King: Relating to Presence in Dimensions of Aronofsky’s Mother!
Contemporary Thai Buddhism through Ritual and Amulets
Jon Coutts, Ambrose University
Responding: Arrival and Annihilation: Cinematic Re-Imaginations of the
Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University Eschatological Transformation of the Body
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Roman Catholic Studies Unit Study of Judaism Unit
Theme: Catholicism, Colonialism, and the Politics of Race in the Theme: Is There a Jewish Problem in Religious Studies?
Americas Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level)
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level) Paul Nahme, Brown University, Presiding
Kathleen Holscher, University of New Mexico, Presiding Panelists:
Néstor Medina, University of Toronto Martin Kavka, Florida State University
The Catholic Church and Ethnic Relations in Spanish Colonial Laura S. Levitt, Temple University
Societies
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
Jack Downey, University of Rochester Shaul Magid, Indiana University
A Desert of Snow and Ice: “Wilderness” Missionaries and Alaska in the
Colonial Imagination Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University
Business Meeting:
Alexandria Griffin, Arizona State University
Black Protestant Anti-Catholicism in the Christian Recorder Paul Nahme, Brown University, and Shari Rabin, Oberlin
College, Presiding
Timothy Dulle, Fordham University
Tinseltown Catholics: The Development of White Catholic Identity in
Los Angeles
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Responding:
Neomi De Anda, University of Dayton Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit
Business Meeting: Theme: Decolonial/Anti-Racist Interventions in Tibetan/
Buddhist Studies
John Seitz, Fordham University, Michael Pasquier, Louisiana
State University, and Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
University, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level)
Sarah Jacoby, Northwestern University, Presiding
A25-127 CW Panelists:
Nancy Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit Matthew King, University of California, Riverside
Theme: Staging Scholarship: Romances, Illusions, and Karin Meyers, Kathmandu University
Disillusionments of the Public Intellectual Sangseraima Ujeed, University of Oxford
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Annabella Pitkin, Lehigh University
Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East) Natalie Avalos, University of Colorado
Maia Kotrosits, Denison University, Presiding Dawa Lokyitsang, University of Colorado
Panelists: Riga Shakya, Columbia University
Tat-siong Benny Liew, College of the Holy Cross
Timothy Beal, Case Western Reserve University
Nyasha Junior, Temple University
A25-130 (=S25-139) A
Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit and SBL
Jennifer Wright Knust, Boston University
Mysticism, Esotericism, and Gnosticism in Antiquity Unit
Business Meeting:
Theme: Esoteric Religious Groups in Antiquity
Jacob Erickson, Trinity College, Dublin, and Marion S. Grau, MF
Norwegian School of Theology, Presiding
April D. DeConick, Rice University, Presiding
Panelists:
Michael E. Stone, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Saint Edward’s University
James Davila, University of Saint Andrews
Christian H. Bull, University of Oslo
Tuomas Rasimus, University of Helsinki, Universite Laval
Charles Haberl, Rutgers University
James McGrath, Butler University
Jorunn J. Buckley, Bowdoin College
Edmondo Lupieri, Loyola University, Chicago
Sabrina Müller, University of Zurich
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 How Everyday Experiences Become Ordinary Theology: Experience-
Based Transformation as a Paradigm for Millennials and Their/Our
(Non)Religious Futures
A25-131 #womanists@aar C Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico
Contours of the Future for Science and Religion
Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit
Theme: Womanist Engagement Through the Lens of Scripture
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A25-133 C
Convention Center-16A (Mezzanine Level) Folklore and Religion Seminar
Teresa L. Fry Brown, Emory University, Presiding Theme: Folklore, Religion, and Race
Melanie Jones, Chicago Theological Seminary Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Up against a Crooked Gospel: A Womanist Reading of Luke 13:10-17
Jean Derricotte-Murphy, Chicago Theological Seminary Leonard Norman Primiano, Cabrini University, Presiding
Rituals of Restorative Resistance: Healing Cultural Trauma and
Cultural Amnesia through Cultural Anamnesis and Collective Jessie Riddle, Indiana University
Memory The Virgin of Guadalupe as Vernacular Religion: Online Brujería and
Festival Processions as Identity Play and Performance
Elaina Smith, Boston University
Murderous: Song of Cyntoia/Song of Yael, a Womanist Defense of Sandra Zimdars-Swartz, University of Kansas
Self-Defense Our Lady of Africa (Algiers)
Responding: Lisle Dalton, Hartwick College
Heavenly Trains and the Railroad Blues: Race and Railroad
Angela Parker, Seattle School of Theology and Psychology Folksongs in Theological Perspective
Business Meeting:
Stephen Wehmeyer, Champlain College
Teresa L. Fry Brown, Emory University, and Cheryl A. Kirk- Marketing Mashetani: Race, Vernacular Religion, and Folk Healing
Duggan, Shaw University, Presiding as Commodities in the Contemporary Tourist Industry in Zanzibar
Responding:
A25-132 S Daisy Vargas, University of California, Riverside
Business Meeting:
Emerging Church, Millennials, and Religion Seminar
Stephen Wehmeyer, Champlain College, Presiding
Theme: The Future of Religion: Millennials and the Emerging
Church
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM A25-134 R
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Intersectional Hindu Studies: Feminist and Critical Race
Xochitl Alvizo, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
Approaches to Research and Teaching Seminar
Terry Shoemaker, Arizona State University, and Rachel
Schneider, Rice University Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
The Emerging Church Movement: Possible Futures and Trajectories Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level)
Dustin Benac, Duke University Shana Sippy, Centre College/Carleton College, Presiding
Emergent/ing Christianity on the Edge of Christendom: Network- Panelists:
Based Religion in the Ecclesial Ecology of the Pacific Northwest Santhosh Chandrashekar, University of Denver
Jessica Knippel, Claremont Graduate School Arun Chaudhuri, York University
“I Am Not Alone”: The Rise of the Post/Ex Evangelical Voice
Shreena Gandhi, Michigan State University
Daniel Rober, Sacred Heart University Marko Geslani, University of South Carolina
Millennials, Secularization, and the Catholic Sexual Abuse Crisis: A
Generational Examination and Reflection Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Emory University
Annie Kyle, Wesley Theological Seminary Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary’s University
Young Adults and the Church: Incarnation, Theosis, and a Nonbinary Vijaya Nagarajan, University of San Francisco
Future for the Body of Christ Prea Persaud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Rupa Pillai, University of Pennsylvania
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Tanisha Ramachandran, Wake Forest University Sumner B. Twiss, Florida State University
Priyanka Ramlakhan, University of Florida David P. Gushee, Mercer University
Anand Venkatkrishnan, Harvard University Business Meeting:
Laura Alexander, University of Nebraska, Omaha, Presiding
A25-135 C
Religion and Families in North America Seminar A25-138 CN
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Exploratory Session: Religion and Friendship
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level) Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Susan Ridgely, University of Wisconsin, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level)
Michal Raucher, Rutgers University Alexander Y. Hwang, Saint Leo University, Presiding
The Ordination of Women and the Changing Orthodox Family in Anant Rambachan, Saint Olaf College
Amerian Judaism Interreligious Relations as Friendship: Mahatma Gandhi and Charles
Jenny Wiley Legath, Princeton University Freer Andrews
Protestant Deaconesses and the Creation of Sanctified Fictive Families John M. Thompson, Christopher Newport University
Samira Mehta, Albright College Who Is Really Your Friend? “Good Friends” in the Lotus
So, You Wanted Jewish Grandchildren? The Role of Grandparents in Hussam S. Timani, Christopher Newport University
Christian-Jewish Interfaith Families The Shahada and the Trinity: Acts of Faith, Acts of Friendship
Kristy Slominski, University of Arizona James Nalley, Georgetown University
How the “Judeo-Christian” Interfaith Ideal Transformed Sex Deiformation and Interreligious Friendship: The Contribution of St.
Education into Family Life Education Thomas Aquinas and 0XΗ\LGGưQ,EQDOȾ$UDEư
Business Meeting: Megan Case, Virginia Tech
Samira Mehta, Albright College, Presiding “Where You Go, I Will Go”: Female Friendship in the Hebrew Bible
Dorothy Dean, Berea College
A25-136 N Queer Friendship and Nonhuman Others
Business Meeting:
Exploratory Session: The 0DKƘEKƘUDWD: A Text for Classical Alexander Y. Hwang, Saint Leo University, Presiding
Hinduism
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 402 (Fourth Level) A25-139 D
Bruce M. Sullivan, Northern Arizona University, Presiding Wildcard Session: Irony, Play, and the (Serious[?]) Study of
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Panelists: Religion
Vishwa Adluri, City University of New York Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Arti Dhand, University of Toronto Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West)
Frederick M. Smith, University of Iowa Danae Faulk, Syracuse University, Presiding
Michael C. Baltutis, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh Panelists:
Joydeep Bagchee, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich Stephanie Brehm, Northwestern University
Responding: Vaughn Booker, Dartmouth College
Brian Collins, Ohio University M. Cooper Harriss, Indiana University
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside
A25-137 CN Anthony Petro, Boston University

Charles McCrary, Washington University, St. Louis
Exploratory Session: Religion and Human Rights: Present Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Princeton University
Problems and Future Possibilities Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Kalamazoo College
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Jennifer Caplan, Towson University
Dana Logan, Connecticut College
Jenna Reinbold, Colgate University, Presiding
Panelists:
Abdullahi An-Na’im, Emory University
Walter Echo-Hawk, Yale, OK
M. Christian Green, Emory University
Najeeba Syeed-Miller, Claremont School of Theology
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 P25-101
Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies
A25-140 Theme: Decolonizing and Resisting Through the Arts
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level)
Business Meeting
Maureen O’Connell, La Salle University, and Cindi Beth Johnson,
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Presiding
Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level) The Society for the Arts in Religious and Theological Studies,
Edwin David Aponte, Louisville Institute, and Kerry Danner, a community of inquiry devoted to the development of the arts
Georgetown University, Presiding in religion and society, presents a panel of four scholars who will
investigate and illuminate, how religious or theologically inspired
artistic expression contributes to movements of resistance and
P25-100 C the work of decolonization. The panel will explore the theological
and religious dimensions of artistic responses racism, nationalism,
African Association for the Study of Religions homophobia, and Islamophobia in a variety of contexts from the
Theme: Engaging the Work of Sanneh urban U.S. to the Israel/Palestine border. Panelists will use a variety
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM of artistic expressions in making their explorations, including musical
composition, poetry, performance, and public art.
Maria Fee, Fuller Theological Seminary
Esther Acolatse, University of Toronto, Presiding Secular Liturgies
In light of his recent passing, this panel presents papers that engage Devon Abts, King’s College London
the legacy and impact of Lamin Sanneh. Papers interact with his Dismantling the Barriers of the Christian Imagination: Postcolonial
work on a variety of topics including his approach to the relationship Theological Encounters with the Art of Khaled Jarrar
between Islam and Christianity in Africa, his influence in the creation
of the field of World Christianity and its cultural boundaries and, his Tyler Davis, Baylor University
contribution to the field of missions in his concept of translatability of Imagining Freedom in the Space between: On the Decolonial Poetics of
the Gospel and whether translatability should be assumed. Terrance Hayes
Cyril Orji, University of Dayton Carl Hughes, Texas Lutheran University
The Intercultural Hermeneutics of Lamin Sanneh “Considering Matthew Shepard” and the Theology of the Cross
Tim Hartman, Columbia Theological Seminary
“Theology Cannot Go on Subsisting on the Legacy of Rented Pews”:
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Face of World Christianity
Manchester Wesley Research Centre and Pentecostal
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Michael J. McClymond, Saint Louis University Theological Seminary

Should Translatability Be Assumed? Sunnah’s Thesis and the Problem
of the Divine Names in Intercultural Contexts Theme: Holiness and Pentecostal Movements: Intertwined Pasts,
Presents, and Futures?
David Ngong, Stillman College Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Domination and Resistance: Lamin Sanneh, Eboussi Boulaga, and the
Reinterpretation of Christianity in Africa Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Level)
Responding: Geordan Hammond, Nazarene Theological College, Manchester
Wesley Research Centre, and David Han, Pentecostal Theological
Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University Seminary, Presiding
Business Meeting: The Holiness and Pentecostal movements are intertwined and
Elias Kifon Bongmba, Rice University, and Corey Williams, competitive traditions and spiritualities. These movements have been
Leiden University, Presiding harmonized in the Church of God, Cleveland, as well as the Sanctified
Churches, including, for example, the Church of God in Christ.
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Historiographical, cultural, and theological issues of these traditions Oluwatomisin Oredein, Memphis Seminary
have been explored. However, there is data as well as interpretative Susan Woolever, Drew University
points of view that have not been examined. This session aims to open
up new discussions, drawing attention to possible ways to enhance our Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina
understanding of the two movements and their relationship with one Responding:
another. The project also seeks to drawn on previous historiographies, Tina Pippin, Agnes Scott College
definitions, theological and spiritual traditions in a multi-disciplinary
examination of the Holiness and Pentecostal traditions.
Cheryl J. Sanders, Howard University P25-106
Black Radical Holiness: Intersections of Christian Unity and Social
Justice Society of Christian Philosophers
Insik Choi, Seoul Theological University Theme: Panel on James Arcadi’s An Incarnational Model of the
Ecumenical Relations of the Korean Methodist, Holiness, and Eucharist (Cambridge University Press, 2018)
Pentecostal Traditions with Attention to Pneumatology Monday, 9:30 AM–12:30 PM
Henry H. Knight, Saint Paul School of Theology Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level)
The Presence of the Kingdom: Optimism of Grace in the Holiness and Panelists:
Pentecostal Movements
Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary
Frank Macchia, Vanguard University Amy Peele, Wheaton College
Jesus’ Baptism in Fire: The Atonement in Holiness and Pentecostal
Conversation Richard Cross, University of Notre Dame
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University James Arcadi, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
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Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Theology and Student Lounge Roundtable
Religion Theme: Humanizing the PhD Process: Loving to Learn and
Learning to Love
Theme: Grant Design Conversations
For several years the AAR has asked its members what it means to
Do you have a grant idea for a project on teaching and learning? Have
you ever thought about applying for a Wabash Center grant? Do you be public scholars of religion in our current context. This question
have questions about our grant procedures and protocols, whether assumes that the academy itself sits outside of the violent and
oppressive relational structures that it so diligently seeks to resist, yet
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
your project would qualify, or how your ideas might be shaped into an
appropriate Wabash Center proposal? Come see us in the Convention many graduate student members of the AAR continue to experience
Center Room 22 either on Sunday, Nov. 24, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM, dehumanizing pedagogical and relational structures of oppression
or Monday, Nov 25, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM to meet with one of the throughout their PhD process. This often leaves students feeling
Wabash Center Staff. We are scheduling appointments ahead of time. isolated, full of despair, and stripped of their original passion for their
Please write Beth Reffett (reffettb@wabash.edu) to schedule a time to subject matter. This Student Lounge Roundtable takes the cries of
meet with us. Registration deadline is November 1. graduate students seriously and asks whether the academy can credibly
talk about what it means to be effective public scholars of religion
while transmitting dehumanizing relational structures from one
P25-133 WK generation of scholars to the next? We ask ourselves, why should the
public even listen to us when we often reflect the exact same relational
Journal of Feminist Studies in Religion structures of harm? We need to address the internal root issues before
Theme: Podcast as Pedagogical Tool we can talk about our external relationships to whatever people like
to define as “the public.” During this workshop participants will learn
Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM about, discuss, and reflect (as they are comfortable) on at least three
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo B (Second Level) initial steps that individuals and institutions might begin to take in
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University, Presiding order to re-humanize the PhD process so that the academy may start
to do the difficult internal work necessary to cultivate scholars of hope
How are podcasts pedagogical tools for the classroom and beyond? rather than scholars of despair. Participants are encouraged to bring
The panel will address this question and discuss how podcasts offer a journal or notebook in which to write personal reflections and will
space for the creation of feminist-centered networks and conversations be invited to share in the process of envisioning how to humanize the
that are pedagogical resources. We will explore the work of making pedagogical and relational structures of the PhD process.
podcasts, the material logistics and the careful planning of topics
and questions for teaching and public discussion. The roundtable Panelists:
discussion will also be recorded and made into a podcast. Tekoa Robinson, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Panelists: Anabel Proffitt, Lancaster Theological Seminary
Sarah Emanuel, Colby College
Kelsi Morrison-Atkins, Harvard Divinity School
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Coffee Break
Monday, 11:30 AM
P25-105 Complimentary coffee will be served in the back
of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall.
International Association of Shin Buddhist Studies
Theme: Pure Lands in Asian Texts and Contexts: An Anthology
Monday, 10:00 AM–12:00 PM
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Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding Program Committee Meeting
This new anthology of primary sources on the Pure Land tradition Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
extends across the entirety of the Mahāyāna Buddhist world. Still Hilton Bayfront-Aqua Boardroom (Third Level)
commonly identified with Japanese Buddhism, the tradition of Kathryn McClymond, Georgia State University, Presiding
practices and beliefs relating to pure lands is widely shared and this
anthology explores the range of expressions of those practices and
beliefs. The panel includes four contributors, one of whom is also an
editor of the collection. A25-144 FKG
Jacqueline I. Stone, Princeton University Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession
On the Modern History of Pure Land in Japan Committee
Daniel A. Getz, Bradley University Theme: Connecting Conversations Luncheon
On the Relation between Pure Land and Confucianism Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Natasha Heller, University of Virginia Convention Center-6B (Upper Level West)
On Modern Pure Land Rebirth Stories
Darla Schumm, Hollins University, Presiding
Aaron Proffitt, State University of New York, Albany The Status of People with Disabilities in the Profession Committee
On Esoteric Pure Land Buddhism (PWD) will host a luncheon for scholars and students with
Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union disabilities, as well as anyone interested in disability issues in the
On the Organizing Principle of the Anthology Academy. The luncheon will offer opportunities for mentoring and
informal connections with colleagues. Registration for the lunch costs
$15 and is limited to 60 people. You may contact reg@aarweb.org to
A25-142 Q reserve your lunch.
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Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G) Women’s Caucus Business Meeting
See page 10 for details. Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM
Elizabeth Ursic, Mesa Community College, and Alicia Panganiban,
Mayo Clinic, Presiding
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Plenary Panel: Creating a Public Sphere: A Conversation
About Religion Online 25 Years Out
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Monday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM Academic Relations Committee
Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East) Theme: Making the Move from a Faculty Position to
Administration: Pros, Cons, and Things to Consider
Is it possible to create comprehensive and
comprehensible debate about religion on the Internet Marriott Marquis-Presidio 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
of 2019? Or are we doomed to click-bait, trolls, and Susan E. Hill, University of Northern Iowa, Presiding
the constant on-line chatter that makes compelling During the course of an academic career, the opportunity to move
public scholarship about religion virtually impossible? from faculty member to administrator may present itself. What are
Join AAR President Laurie L. Patton as she talks to the advantages and disadvantages of moving into administration?
Anthea Butler several writers who believe it’s possible, despite the What might administrative positions offer that faculty positions do
algorithms that work against us. Anthea Butler is not? What are the constraints on administrators that faculty do not
Associate Professor at University of Pennsylvania, the author of face? Join members of AAR’s Academic Relations Committee, all of
several books on Pentecostalism in America, and a public whom have considered and/or are currently academic administrators,
intellectual who uses many forms of social media to “give it to you to discuss the pros and cons of becoming an administrator.
straight...no chaser.”
Panelists:
Andrew Henry is the founder of “Religion for
Breakfast,” a YouTube channel with over 80,000 Elizabeth Castelli, Barnard College
subscribers dedicated to promoting religious literacy Joanne Maguire Robinson, University of North Carolina,
and the study of religion online. Andrew is also the Charlotte
YouTube channel manager at The Atlantic and a PhD Martha Newman, University of Texas
candidate at Boston University.
Grant Potts, Austin Community College
Andrew Henry Panelists:
Jennifer Rycenga, San Jose State University
Anthea Butler, University of Pennsylvania
Andrew Henry, Boston University
A25-201 FPK
Employment Workshop: Aurora, a New E-Learning
P25-200 Platform: An Information Session with Co-Creator, Maren
Wood
12 Step Recovery Support Meeting Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Monday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level)
Maren Wood, Beyond the Professoriate, Presiding
Aurora is an eLearning Platform from Beyond the Professoriate —
accessible free for members of the AAR! — that provides graduate
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Publications Committee
A25-202 Theme: Making a Match: Finding the Right Publisher for Your
Work
International Connections Committee Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Making the Most of International Collaboration: 2020 Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level)
IAHR Otago and Beyond Vincent Lloyd, Villanova University, Presiding
This session brings together editors from scholarly and trade presses,
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level) both large and small, to share their perspectives on the acquisition and
Olga Kazmina, Moscow State University, and Satoko Fujiwara, editorial processes that bring a book from its research stage to market.
University of Tokyo, Presiding Editors will share how scholarly authors can find their best publishing
This session features projects that received Collaborative International fit, what acquisition editors are looking for, strategies for pitching a
Research Grants (CIRG) to illustrate the benefits and challenges of book, and how to identify audience(s). They also discuss how they
international collaboration. The session will focus not only on the build strong relationships with authors in order for their books to
research outcomes of the project but also the process of developing make the most impact.
and carrying out international collaborative projects, including (e.g.) Panelists:
how they have created and managed such collaboration, how they Elisabeth Maselli, Rutgers University Press
found their partners, the roles they assigned to each other, and the
relationships they developed, especially when some work in the US Elaine Maisner, University of North Carolina Press
and others have been educated and work in developing countries. This Philip Getz, Palgrave Macmillan
session is organized by the International Connections Committee Rebecca Shillabeer, Routledge
(ICC) and International Association for the History of Religions
(IAHR) to review the achievements of Collaborative International
Research Grants (CIRG) to encourage AAR members to develop and
submit proposals for 22nd IAHR Quinquennial World Congress in
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Otago, New Zealand in 2020 that involve international collaboration. Student Lounge Roundtable
Panelists: Theme: Right on the Money: Funding Your Research and Program
Gregory Grieve, University of North Carolina, Greensboro of Study
Xenia Zeiler, University of Helsinki Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
‘Tsho Padma, Southwest Minzu University Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level)
Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College I currently work as the Scholarship Research Assistant for my school
and assist students to find and apply for funds to support their work.
Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen In this workshop, I will share best practices for finding what you are
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Responding: eligible to apply for, creating a compelling application, and designing

Oliver Freiberger, University of Texas an overall strategy for supporting yourself and your work financially.
I also have experience as a grant writer and will share best practices,
tips, and techniques for grant-writing more generally. I will cover
topics including how to balance your own interests with funders’
priorities and guidelines, communicating clearly and persuasively, and
creating a budget that will work for you and speak to your funder.
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A25-205 K A25-207 #animalsaar19 C
Teaching and Learning Committee and Critical Theory and Animals and Religion Unit
Discourses on Religion Unit and Cultural History of the Theme: Race/Gender/Animals/Religion: Further Engagements at
Study of Religion Unit the Intersection
Theme: Theory and Method 2.0: Reconceiving Shared Space Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Christopher Carter, University of San Diego, Presiding
Constance Furey, Indiana University, Presiding Katharine Mershon, Whitman College
This panel examines how “methods and theories” in the study Why The White Dog Had to Be Killed: When Redemption Fails
of religion might be revitalized in a manner that simultaneously Callie Tabor, Emory University
challenges the field’s colonial and otherwise parochial heritage and St. Guinefort and the Green World: A Comic Reading of the Cult of
works to overcome its present state of fragmentation. The four papers St. Guinefort as Depicted in “Sorceress”
consider the role of such courses in bringing — or failing to bring
Candace M. Laughinghouse, Chicago Theological Seminary
— scholars who work on religion in very different times and places
Using a Robust Ecowomanist Theology to Expand Food Justice
into a shared discipline. Doing so requires asking how methods and
theories courses can play this integrating role without championing Lisa Powell, St. Ambrose University
the revivification of a 19th- and early 20th-century male European The Exhibition of Humans, the Construction of Whiteness, and the
canon. We also reflect on the significance of this integration itself Theological Sideshow
at a moment when the humanities often feel threatened. We argue Responding:
that the kind of integration of the discipline of religious studies that
revitalized methods and theories courses could yield is essential to Jea Sophia Oh, West Chester University of Pennsylvania
providing compelling arguments for the discipline’s significance. Business Meeting:
Thomas A. Lewis, Brown University Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina, and David
Theory and Method and the Stakes of a Fragmented Discipline Clough, University of Chester, Presiding
Noreen Khawaja, Yale University
Old Enemies, New Friends
Sonam Kachru, University of Virginia
A25-208 C
It’s Easy If You Try: A Plea for Imagination and Experiment in Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Mysticism Unit
Theories and Methods Theme: Mysticism in Arts and Literature: Experience, Enactment,
Robert A. Orsi, Northwestern University and Expression
Theory and Method beyond the Great Derangement Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
A25-206 C Margarita Simon Guillory, Boston University, Presiding
David Odorisio, Pacifica Graduate Institute
African Religions Unit and World Christianity Unit The Comic Book as Mystical Text: Trauma, Initiation, and the
Theme: Healing, Health, and Care in African Christianities Empowered Imagination in Grant Morrison’s The Invisibles
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Julianne Dolan, University of Notre Dame
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level) Mystical Transgressions: Intersection and Divergence in Romantic
Aestheticism and Christian Mysticism
Teresia Mbari Hinga, Santa Clara University, Presiding
Kendall Walser Cox, The University of Virginia
Emmy Corey, Emory University
Aesthetic Asceticism: Kandinsky, Rothko, and Mysticism
The Dilemmas of Distribution: Engaging the Transcendent through
Practices of Care at Amani Clinic Min-Ah Cho, Georgetown University
The Monk and the Poet Dwell and See in Silence: Contemplative
Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Boston University
Aspects of Mary Oliver’s Poems in Dialogue with Evagrius Ponticus
Reasons to Trust: Community Caregivers and the Religious Ecology of
Uganda Business Meeting:
Emily Crews, University of Chicago Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida, and Jason N. Blum,
Miracles on the Margins: Digital Technology, Healing Rituals, and Davidson College, Presiding
Gendered Embodiment in the African Christian Diaspora
Business Meeting:
Adriaan van Klinken, University of Leeds, and David Amponsah,
University of Pennsylvania, Presiding
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-212 C
Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit and Queer
A25-209 Studies in Religion Unit
Theme: Buddhism, Queer Theory, and Trans* Theory
Baha’i Studies Unit and Women’s Caucus Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Theme: Bridging Faith and Feminism: The Role That Religion Can Convention Center-17B (Mezzanine Level)
Play in Advancing Gender Equality
Sid Brown, University of the South, Presiding
Panelists:
Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy
Julia Berger, Baha’i International Community, New York, NY,
Presiding Bee Scherer, Canterbury Christ Church University
Panelists: Ray Buckner, Ohio State University
Maha Marouan, Pennsylvania State University Carol S. Anderson, Kalamazoo College
Saphira Rameshfar, Baha’i International Community, New York, Jennifer Wade, Gwynedd Mercy University
NY, United Nations Office Business Meeting:
Hsiao-Lan Hu, University of Detroit Mercy, and Sid Brown,
University of the South, Presiding
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Black Theology Unit
A25-213
Theme: New Cartographies of Black Theology: 400 Years After
Jamestown Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Theme: Children in the Field
Convention Center-17A (Mezzanine Level) Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Michele Watkins, University of San Diego, Presiding Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East)
Jawanza Eric Clark, Manhattan College Valerie Michaelson, Queen’s University, Presiding
Through the Door of No Return and Back: Black Theology’s Panelists:
Reconciliation with Fetish Religion
Allie Blosser, High Point University
Paul Daniels, Fordham University
Uncaptured: Black Nihilism, Queer Failure, and Mystical Redemption James Hoesterey, Emory University
Verena Meyer, Columbia University
Leonard McKinnis, Saint Louis University
Kaio Thompson, Boston University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
World without End? Cosmology and Existential Absurdity in Black

Theology and Black Power Responding:
Katherine Ewing, Columbia University
A25-211
Bonhoeffer: Theology and Social Analysis Unit
Theme: Eighty Years Hence: Bonhoeffer in 1939
Michael DeJonge, University of South Florida, Presiding
Joshua Mauldin, Center of Theological Inquiry
Bonhoeffer on Protestantism without Reformation and Political
Resistance
Joel Looper, University of Aberdeen
Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Encounter with American Pragmatism: A
Juxtaposition of Two Types of Public Theological Discourse
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Nareman Amin, Princeton University
A25-214 A Revolutionary Religion: Egyptian Youth and Islam in Post-2011
Egypt
Christian Systematic Theology and Music and Religion Unit
Responding:
Theme: New Horizons in Theologies of Music: Book Panel
on Brown and Hopps’ The Extravagance of Music (Palgrave Ahmet Tekelioglu, George Mason University
Macmillan, 2018) Business Meeting:
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Zahra Ayubi, Dartmouth College, and Kayla Renée Wheeler,
Convention Center-16B (Mezzanine Level) Grand Valley State University, Presiding
Awet Andemicael, Yale University, Presiding
Panelists:
Antonio Alonso, Emory University
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Ethics Unit
Kutter Callaway, Fuller Theological Seminary
Theme: What Is This “Public” in Public Spaces?
Heidi Epstein, University of Saskatchewan
Christoph Schwoebel, University of Saint Andrews
Responding:
Courtney Bryant Prince, Manhattan College, Presiding
David Brown, University of Saint Andrews
Richard Park, Vanguard University
The Academy, Imagination Formation, and Social Media
A25-215 Jeremy Posadas, Austin College
What Is Public in Racial-Patriarchal Capitalism?
Cognitive Science and Religion Unit and Contemplative Matthew Anderson, Baylor University
Studies Unit Secondary Stigmas and the Work of Mercy
Theme: Meta-Awareness in Contemplative Experience and the Elizabeth Block, Saint Louis University
Cognitive Sciences The Moral Imperative of Public Theology: Tradition, Intersectionality,
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM and Public Engagement
Maria Heim, Amherst College, Presiding
Panelists:
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Kalina Christoff, University of British Columbia Evangelical Studies Unit
John Dunne, University of Wisconsin Theme: Evangelical Theologies of Liberation
Jonathan Schooler, University of California, Santa Barbara Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Michael Sheehy, University of Virginia Convention Center-15A (Mezzanine Level)
Evan Thompson, University of British Columbia Jason Sexton, University of California, and Gabriela Viesca, Cedar
Zachary Irving, University of Virginia Mill Bible Church, Presiding
Responding: The Evangelical Studies Group will be holding its business meeting
over breakfast, Saturday, November 23rd, at 7:00 AM at a nearby
Christian Coseru, College of Charleston restaurant TBD.
Panelists:
A25-216 C Robert Romero, University of California, Los Angeles
Andrea Smith, University of California, Riverside
Contemporary Islam Unit
Sarah Withrow King, CreatureKind, Eugene, OR
Theme: Islamic Education and New Ideals
Alexandra Salvatierra, Fuller Theological Seminary
Boaz Rajkumar Johnson, North Park University
Dominique Gilliard, Evangelical Covernant Church
Hassanah El-Yacoubi, University of California Riverside, Presiding
Drew Hart, Messiah College
Sawyer French, University of Chicago
“Active Learning” Pedagogies, Islamic Education, and the Soong-Chan Rah, North Park Theological Seminary
Authoritative Pious Subject
Ian VanderMeulen, New York University
The Untimeliness of Ikhtisar: Technology and Temporality in Morocco’s
Revival of the Qira’at
Timea Greta Biro, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Bringing Trans-Women Back to “Fitrah”: Social Engineering through
Religious Education and the Use of Islamic Alms in Malaysia
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-221 K
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A25-219 #aarhcs Theme: Workshop: Pedagogy of Interreligious Studies
History of Christianity Unit Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Theme: Christianities in a Hellenistic World Rachel Mikva, Chicago Theological Seminary, Presiding
Panelists:
John Sheveland, Gonzaga University
Peter Anthony Mena, University of San Diego, Presiding
Margarita M. W. Suárez, Meredith College
Michael Gaston, Claremont Graduate University
Reconsidering the Classical Stereotypes in the Chronicles of Late Anne Hege Grung, University of Oslo
Antiquity Jane Webster, Barton College
Engin Gokcek, University of California, Riverside Russell CD Arnold, Regis University
Epicurean Reception and Survival in Christian Roman Empire Jonathan David Lawrence, Canisius College
Brad Boswell, Duke University Alfons Teipen, Furman University
Contesting Late Antique Judaeo-Christianity: Julian “the Apostate” Christopher Conway, College of Saint Benedict and Saint John’s
and Narrative Sublation University
Viraj Patel, University of Chicago
A25-220 S Sungrae Kim, Graduate Theological Union
Hans Gustafson, University of Saint Thomas
Indian and Chinese Religions Compared Unit and Ritual Charles Preston, Millsaps College
Studies Unit
Mary T. Kantor, Arlington, MA
Theme: Indigenous Theories of Ritual in India and China
Angela Parkinson, University of Chicago
Feryal Salem, American Islamic College
Joseph Pritchett, Franklin and Marshall College
Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University, Presiding
Kevin Minister, Shenandoah University
Peng Yin, Harvard University
Xunzi and the Moral Significance of Ritual Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College
Esther-Maria Guggenmos, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Taraneh Wilkinson, John XXIII Foundation for Religious Studies
Ritual Dynamics between India and China: On Individual Ritual Cynthia Lindner, University of Chicago
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Performance in a Chinese Buddhist Apocryph Ann Duncan, Goucher College

Xingyi Wang, Harvard University Rocío Cortés Rodriguez, University of Notre Dame
Vessel to the Other Shore: On Daoxuan’s Theory of Repentance Ritual
Geoffrey Goble, University of Oklahoma
Homa-Siddhi in Chinese Sources
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Young Woon Ko, Lorain Community College
A25-222 CW To Worship the Divine Paradox beyond the Personal-Impersonal
Distinction
Japanese Religions Unit
Benjamin Chicka, Curry College
Theme: Buddhism, Religious Knowledge, and Public Space in Edo Beyond the Impasse: Divine Transcendence, Immanence, and
and Meiji Japan Emergent Theism
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Responding:
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Donna Bowman, University of Central Arkansas
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Ohio State University, Presiding Business Meeting:
Eric Tojimbara, University of California, Los Angeles Krista E. Hughes, Newberry College, and Wm. Andrew Schwartz,
Buddhist Apologetics and the Rise of “Public” Buddhist Scholarship in Center for Process Studies, Presiding
Early Modern Japan
Matthew Hayes, University of California, Los Angeles
Public Ritual Networks and the Flow of Doctrinal Knowledge in
Early Modern Shingon Buddhism
A25-225 AH
Victoria Montrose, University of Southern California Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious
Shifting Sands: Nineteenth-Century Education Policy and Buddhism Thought Unit and Religion and Humanism Unit
in Japan’s Public Sphere Theme: Deepening Democracy Through the Anthropocene
Paride Stortini, University of Chicago Paradox
The Language of Public Buddhism: Sanskrit, Indology and the Place of Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Buddhist Studies in the Public Sphere of Meiji Japan Convention Center-11A (Upper Level West)
Responding: J. Sage Elwell, Texas Christian University, Presiding
Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University Panelists:
Business Meeting: Michael Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School
Asuka Sango, Carleton College, and Levi McLaughlin, North Catherine Keller, Drew University
Carolina State University, Presiding Sharon Welch, Meadville Lombard Theological School
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Nineteenth Century Theology Unit Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit
Theme: Theological Responses to the Rise of Scientific Materialism Theme: Scholarly Workers in Public Spaces: The Long Road
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Toward De-Colonizing Psychology, Culture, and Religion
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Cameron Clausing, University of Edinburgh, Presiding Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East)
Todd Gooch, Eastern Kentucky University Danjuma Gibson, Calvin Theological Seminary, Presiding
The Rise of Scientific Materialism and Its Long-Term Effect on the Panelists:
Development of Nineteenth-Century German Theology
Lee Hayward Butler, Chicago Theological Seminary
Charles J. T. Talar, University of Saint Thomas
Sociology, the Social Gospel of Jesus Christ, and Shailer Mathews Emmanuel Lartey, Emory University
Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Vanderbilt University
Christine Hedlin, Valparaiso University
The Spiritual Materialism of Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Angella Son, Drew University
Hans Schwarz, University of Regensburg Jaeyeon Lucy Chung, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Melinda McGarrah Sharp, Columbia Theological Seminary
Michael K. Washington, Garrett-Evangelical Theological
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Open and Relational Theologies Unit Pamela Yetunde, United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities
Theme: What Kind of God Is Most Worthy of Worship?
Bethany Sollereder, University of Oxford, Presiding
Jeffrey Speaks, Boston University
The Piety of a Theocentric Naturalist
Andrew Davis, Claremont School of Theology
God, Value, and Ontological Gratitude: The Axiological Foundations
of Worship
Allegra Lovejoy Wiprud, Yale University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Pastoral Earth Ethics for the Climate Crisis in the Teachings of AC
Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
Responding:
A25-227 C Christopher Fici, Union Theological Seminary
Qur’an Unit
Theme: Approaches to the Qur’an A25-229
Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West) Religion and Politics Unit
Munim Sirry, University of Notre Dame, Presiding Theme: Race, Christianity, and Identity Politics in America: From
Teddy Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington to Jordan Peterson
Duygu Yeni Cenebasi, Syracuse University and Sam Harris
Materiality of the Qur’an as a Book: The Medium, the Message, and
the Audience
Emmanuelle Stefanidis, Sorbonne Université
The Ambiguities of Qur’anic Temporality: Chronological Lists and the Vincent Biondo, Humboldt State University, Presiding
Legitimacy of the ‘Uthmani Codex in the Formative Period of Islam Kathleen M. Sands, University of Hawai’i
Syed Zaidi, Emory University Religion, Race, and American Empire: From the Americanism of
The Use of the Qur’ān in the Brethren of Purity’s (Ikhwān al-ΘDIƘ’) Theodore Roosevelt to the White Nationalism of Donald Trump
Conception of Resurrection and the Last Day Isabella Favazza, Goucher College
Maria Massi Dakake, George Mason University Discourse of Faith and Power: Turnaround Tuesday, a Case Study
The Relationship between Prophecy and Sanctity: The Significance of Chad Moore, Boston University
Non-Prophetic Figures in the Qur’an From Converts to Customers: A History of Political Neo-Liberalism in
Martyn A. Oliver, American University the New and Religious Right
Teaching the Qur’an in the Classroom and the Community Dimitry Okropiridze, Heidelberg University
Business Meeting: Fighting Postmodernism with “Judeo-Christian Enlightenment”: The
Intellectual Dark Web and Its Take on Identity Politics, Religion, and
Lauren Osborne, Whitman College, and Gordon D. Newby, Secularism
Emory University, Presiding
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Religion and Sexuality Unit
Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Sex at the Altar, Christian Masculinity, Sexual Violence,
Theme: Anticipatory Directions in Hindu Dharma and Earth
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
and Erotic Evolution

Ethics for the Anthropocene
Nina Hoel, University of Oslo, Presiding
Vineet Chander, Princeton University, Presiding
Andreas Ihlang Berg, University of Oslo
David Haberman, Indiana University Sex at the Altar: Christian Bodies as (Hetero)Sexual Imperialism
A Return to the Gods of the Land
Rachel Beaver, Union Theological Seminary
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union The Image of Corruptible Man: Masculinity and the Writings of
The Ecological Ethics of Deep Immanence Athanasius of Alexandria
Frederique Apffel-Marglin, Smith College, and Neela Stephanie Gaskill, New Orleans, LA
Bhattacharya Saxena, Nassau Community College “Anyone Would Want to Forgive You”: How Churches Should Respond
Unraveling the Weave between Body and Cosmos in Jagannatha to People Convicted of Acts of Sexual Violence
Temple
Rebecca Farrar, California Institute of Integral Studies
Christopher Patrick Miller, Loyola Marymount University (White)Head over Heels: Desire and Erotic Evolution of Process
Softpower and Biopower: Narendra Modi’s Dual Deployment of Yoga Philosophy
for Climate Change and Self-Care
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Nina Hoel, University of Oslo, and Jennifer S. Leath, Iliff School
of Theology, Presiding
A25-233 SC
Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit
Theme: Innovations from the Margins: Religious Perceptions of
A25-231 C Body and Healing
Religion, Media, and Culture Unit Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level)
Theme: The Body as Media: Skinvertising, Virtual Reality, and Linda L. Barnes, Boston University, Presiding
Embodiment
Jennifer Edwell, University of North Carolina
Medicating Eve’s Curse: Race, Class, and Religious Sensibility in 19th
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level) Century Obstetrics
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University, Presiding Mark Lambert, University of Chicago
Sarah McFarland Taylor, Northwestern University “A Horror of Moral Beauty”: South Seas Travel Writing, Religion, and
Bodies as Media for Extending the Scope of Justice: Skinvertising and the Perception of Leprosy
Witnessing Strategies in Contemporary Devotional Body Art Torang Asadi, Duke University
John Borchert, Syracuse University New Age Mystics, Healing Cyborgs
Playful Mediations: Posthuman Ritualizations of Embodiments in Business Meeting:
Alternate Reality Games
Emily Wu, Dominican University of California, Presiding
Tim Hutchings, University of Nottingham
Religion, Media, and the (Digital) Body: Christian Videogames and
Embodied Formation
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Responding:
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit
Business Meeting: Theme: James H. Cone and Wesleyan/Methodist Theological
Traditions
Deborah Whitehead, University of Colorado, and Kathryn Reklis,
Fordham University, Presiding
Josiah U. Young, Wesley Theological Seminary, Presiding
A25-232 C Elaine Robinson, Saint Paul School of Theology
Toward a Method for Liberating Whiteness: The Significance of James
Religions in the Latina/o Americas Unit Cone’s Theology for White Theologians and the Church
Theme: African-Diasporic Religion in the Latina/o Americas
Matthias Gockel, University of Basel
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Doing Theology “from below” and “from above”: James Cone Reads
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level) Karl Barth
Jessica Delgado, Princeton University, Presiding Craig Keen, Azusa Pacific University
Steven Engler, Mount Royal University The Body and the Blues of Systematic Theology: A Thank You to James
Ritual Polyphony in Afro-Brazilian Religions Cone and the Wesleys Who Lean toward Him
Axel Presas, Emory University
An Analysis on Orality in the Practice of Afro-Cuban Ifá: On the
Ethical and Pragmatic Value of Patakís
Michael Amoruso, Amherst College
Absence and Activism: The Death and Afterlives of Francisco José das
Chagas
Responding:
Justin Doran, Middlebury College
Business Meeting:
Chris Tirres, DePaul University, and Jessica Delgado, Princeton
Arun Chaudhuri, York University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 The Multiplicity of Mozumdar’s Cosmic Rays
Varun Khanna, University of Pennsylvania
“Delighting in Pure Knowledge”: Swami Chinmayananda and the
A25-235 Making of Modern Diaspora Hinduism
Western Esotericism Unit Sailaja Krishnamurti, Saint Mary’s University
The Purna Vidya Curriculum for Children: Structuring Hindu
Theme: Never the Twain Shall Meet? Orientalism and Western Religious Education in the Diaspora
Esotericism Revisited
Prea Persaud, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Jahaji Bhai: The Denial of a Shared “Brotherhood” among Indo- and
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level) Afro-Caribbeans in the Study of Hinduism and Caribbean Religions
Patton Burchett, College of William and Mary, Presiding Business Meeting:
Nika Kuchuk, University of Toronto Shana Sippy, Carleton College, Centre College, and Tanisha
Battling the Asuras and Bestowing Grace: Tantra, Magic, and Ramachandran, Wake Forest University, Presiding
Spiritual Evolution in Integral Yoga
Anya Foxen, California Polytechnic State University
Just How to Wake the Solar Plexus: Subtle Bodies and Pseudo-Yoga A25-237
Ben Joffe, University of Colorado Status of Persons with Disabilities in the Profession
Feral Phantoms: Finding Common-Ground between Tibetan and
Non-Tibetan Tulpas
Committee Meeting
Joel Bordeaux, Stony Brook University
The Continuing Story of Buddha and The Beast: Vajrayana and Convention Center-18 (Mezzanine Level)
Comparative Religion in Contemporary Thelema Darla Schumm, Hollins University, Presiding
Responding:
Hugh B. Urban, Ohio State University A25-238 Q
Sacred Sites Tour
A25-236 WD Monday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM
Wildcard Session: Religious Perspectives on Boycott: BDS Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G)
and Scholarly Work in Public David Bains, Samford University, and Daniel Sack, Washington, DC,
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Presiding
Convention Center-15B (Mezzanine Level) See page 10 for details.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Rebecca Alpert, Temple University, Presiding

Panelists:
Elizabeth W. Corrie, Emory University
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San Diego Zoo Tour
Tarek Abuata, Friends of Sabeel, Portland, OR
Zahra Billoo, Council on American-Islamic Relations
Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G)
Elizabeth Ingenthron, Jewish Voice for Peace, Oakland, CA
A25-241 C A25-240 Q
North American Hinduism Unit
Balboa Park Transportation
Theme: Hindu Formations: Local Epistemologies and Diasporic
Articulations
Convention Center-Meet at Registration (outside Halls F&G)
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502A (Fifth Level) See page 10 for details.
Bhakti Mamtora, University of Florida, Presiding
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Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM This session asks: what does it mean for a religion program to be
successful? How can we best attract majors? What kinds of programs
generate positive attention from students and administrators? Join us
to explore ways that religion departments are effectively navigating
Coffee Break these challenges.
Monday, 3:30 PM Panelists:
Molly Bassett, Georgia State University
of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall. Russell T. McCutcheon, University of Alabama
Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
A25-300 FPK A25-302 FPK

Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Committee and Employment Workshop: Purpose Based: A Success Strategy
Graduate Student Committee and Teaching Religion Unit for a Job Search Beyond the Academy
Theme: Teaching Unfamiliar Topics Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level)
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level) This workshop is for graduate students and PhDs in Religion and
Kathleen Fisher, Assumption College, Presiding Theology actively seeking employment to help them consider career
opportunities beyond academia and to develop a customized strategy
In collaboration with the Graduate Student Committee and the for a successful job search. We will apply an approach that builds on
Academic Labor and Contingent Faculty Working Group, the the work of Harvard Business School’s Nick Craig and Scott Snook
Teaching Religion Unit is facilitating conversations about teaching alongside my qualitative research and professional experience. The
unfamiliar topics and/or teaching outside one’s research area. This goal of this workshop is to help career seekers engage in an effective
session will take place as conversations around tables focused on ‘purpose-based’ job search so they not only find a career beyond the
particular areas or courses. We anticipate that our presenters and academy, they find one that uniquely suits their skills, abilities and
participants bring a range of pedagogical experience and research interests which, in turn, leads to more fulfillment in their work. By
knowledge to each table so that faculty currently engaged in teaching the end of this workshop, each participant will have developed a
unfamiliar topics, faculty who anticipate teaching outside their customized strategy for a successful search process.
research subjects, and future faculty, including graduate students, can
share tips, tricks, and sources. Panelist:
Alyssa Beall, West Virginia University Robin L. Owens, Mount Saint Mary’s University
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Academia: Navigating Alien Courses, and
Surviving.
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Emily Bennett, Bellevue University, Central Community College
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Teaching Unfamiliar Topics African Diaspora Religions Unit and Afro-American
Matthew Hotham, Ball State University Religious History Unit
Teaching Islam across the Curriculum: Strategies for Enhancing Theme: Marking the the Maafa: Narratives, Experiences, and
Teaching about Islam beyond the Religious Studies Classroom Embodiments of Slavery and Incarceration in African Diaspora
Anne Blankenship, North Dakota State University Religion
Strategies for Teaching Unfamiliar Topics Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Beth Ritter-Conn, Belmont University Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level)
Learning to Swim: How to Survive in the Deep End When Teaching Lerone Martin, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding
Unfamiliar Course Material Katharine Gerbner, University of Minnesota
Responding: Constructing Religion, Defining Crime: Slavery, Power, and
Aaron Ghiloni, University of Queensland Epistemology
Ryne Beddard, University of North Carolina
Dismal: Excess and Taboo in an Antebellum Swamp
A25-301 K Brad Stoddard, McDaniel College
Academic Relations Committee Christianity and Convict Labor in the Postbellum South
Theme: Creating Successful Religion Programs in an Anti- Responding:
Humanities Age Rachel E. Harding, University of Colorado, Denver
Martha Newman, University of Texas, Presiding
Current public discourse about higher education disparages programs
in the humanities, including religion. This state of affairs has meant
that religion programs have had to become more innovative in their
programming, marketing, and course offerings.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-306 AW
Buddhism Unit and Law, Religion, and Culture Unit, and
A25-304 Yoga in Theory and Practice Unit
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics: Panel Discussion of Debating Yoga
Anthropology of Religion Unit and Mindfulness in Public Schools: Reforming Secular Education or
Theme: Global Pessimisms: Ethnographic Perspectives on Hope, Reestablishing Religion? (University of North Carolina Press, 2019)
Skepticism, and Negotiating Authority by Candy Gunther Brown
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Convention Center-20A (Upper Level East)
James Bielo, Miami University, Presiding Richard K. Payne, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Cora Gaebel, University of Cologne Panelists:
Millions for the Deities: The Infrastructure of Two Hindu Festivals Andrea Jain, Indiana University - Purdue University, Indianapolis
Katherine Dugan, Springfield College David McMahan, Franklin and Marshall College
Natural Family Planning, Social Media, and the Ethnographic Ronald Purser, San Francisco State University
Method Online
Steven Green, Willamette University
Sarah Riccardi-Swartz, New York University
Responding:
Palace of Putin: Political Ideologies in Orthodox Appalachia
Candy Gunther Brown, Indiana University
Candace Lukasik, University of California, Berkeley
“Ecumenism of Blood”: Globalatinization and the Geopolitics of
Middle Eastern Christians
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Responding:
Marc Loustau, College of the Holy Cross Buddhist Critical-Constructive Reflection Unit
Theme: Multiple Buddhisms and Strategic Secularity in Ladakh,
India
A25-305 Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Religion and Politics
Unit Courtney Bruntz, Doane University, Presiding
Theme: Religion, War, and the Empire in Arts and Literature I: Elizabeth Williams-Oerberg, University of Copenhagen
The Asia-Pacific “We Tell Them What They Want to Hear”: Ladakhi Buddhist
Negotiations with the Supernatural and Secular
Ann Gleig, University of Central Florida
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level)

Hiding in Plain Sight: “Multiple Buddhisms” and “Strategic
Fredrik Gregorius, Linkoping University, Presiding Secularity” at the Mahabodhi International Meditation Center,
Matthew Potts, Harvard University Ladakh
Christ, Identity, and Empire in Shusaku Endo’s Silence Brooke Schedneck, Rhodes College
Haruka Umetsu Cho, Harvard University Fighting the Decline of Buddhism: Thai Buddhist Networks and
War Trauma, Histories, and Bodies: Reading Hikaru Okuizumi’s The Missionaries in Ladakh, India
Stones Cry out from Luke 19:40
Mara Willard, Boston College
Can Art and Religion Reveal a “Hidden Empire”?
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Aizaiah Yong, Claremont School of Theology
A25-308 Contemplative Nonviolence for the Multiracial Person
Buddhist Philosophy Unit and Tibetan and Himalayan Sarah Bixler, Princeton Theological Seminary
Attachment and Spiritual Friendship: An Interdisciplinary
Religions Unit Exploration
Theme: How Empty and Empty How? Extending a Distinction to
New Realms
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM A25-311
Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Greg Seton, Dartmouth College, Presiding
Theme: New Light on Atonement
Jeremy Manheim, University of Wisconsin
Just What Is the Distinction? Gorampa’s Account of Intrinsic Versus Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Extrinsic Emptiness Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502A (Fifth Level)
Yaroslav Komarovski, University of Nebraska Oliver Crisp, Fuller Theological Seminary, Presiding
The Self-Emptiness/Other-Emptiness Distinction in the Tantric Kimberly Vrudny, University of Saint Thomas
Context A Restorative Theory of Atonement
Sara L. McClintock, Emory University Aaron Brian Davis, Union Presbyterian Seminary
Other Other Emptinesses in Indian Madhyamaka Compassionate Exclusivism: Toward a Broader Soteriology through
Michael Allen, University of Virginia the Relationality of Grace
Did ĞUưKDUΙD Have a Position? Emptiness, Existence, and Advaita Travis Ables, Regis University
Vedānta “O Woman Full and Overflowing with Grace”: Marian Rhetoric and
Responding: Atonement in Anselm’s Prayers
John Dunne, University of Wisconsin
A25-312
A25-309 #chineserels Comparative Studies in Religion Unit
Chinese Religions Unit Theme: What Makes for a Good Research Collaboration?
Theme: Later Tiantai Buddhism in China Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 502B (Fifth Level)
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level) James Ponniah Kulandai Raj, University of Madras, Presiding
Daniel B. Stevenson, University of Kansas, Presiding Panelists:
Lang Chen, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Jon Keune, Michigan State University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Competition or Complementation? Youxi Chuandeng’s Construction of Massimo Rondolino, Carroll University
Tiantai Identity and Tiantai-Chan Relation Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University
Beverley Foulks McGuire, University of North Carolina, Amy DeRogatis, Michigan State University
Wilmington
Tiantai in Approach, But Not in Name: A Comparative Study of Gil Ben-Herut, University of South Florida
Ouyi Zhixu and Zhiyi’s Profound Meaning Texts
Rongdao Lai, McGill University
Lineage Identity in Modern Tiantai Buddhism
A25-313 #aarcomptheo A
Raoul Birnbaum, University of California, Santa Cruz Comparative Theology Unit
Ven. Miaojing (1930–2003) and His Commitment to Teaching Theme: Shantideva for Christians
A25-310 Thomas Cattoi, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding
Christian Spirituality Unit Panelists:
Theme: Spirituality and Human Relationships: Perspectives from Karen Enriquez, Loyola Marymount University
the Social Sciences Judith Simmer-Brown, Naropa University
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM S. Mark Heim, Yale University
Perry Schmidt-Leukel, University of Muenster
Rebecca Giselbrecht, University of Bern, Vancouver School of
John Makransky, Boston College
Theology, Presiding
Ally Moder, Azusa Pacific University
The Telling Story of Domestic Abuse: Integrating Spirituality,
Neuroscience, and Narrative in Healing Praxis for Survivors
Indigenous Religious Traditions Unit
A25-314 Theme: Indigenous Muertos/Death Traditions of Mexico and
Lithuania
Contemporary Pagan Studies Unit Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Theme: Exchanges with Other-Than-Human Realms Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level)
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Jace Weaver, University of Georgia, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level) Eglute Trinkauskaite, Maryland Institute College of Art
Shawn Arthur, Wake Forest University, Presiding The Ecology of the Living Dead in Ancient Baltic Worldview
Zachary Montgomery, University of Missouri Yuria Celidwen, Pacifica Graduate Institute
An Angry Goddess Challenges Monsanto: The Creation of Boundaries Día de Muertos: Ethics of Belonging and Rituals of Love
in Contemporary Pagan Discourse Natalie Solis, Harvard University
Kimberly Kirner, California State University, Northridge Día de los Muertos in Boston: Indigenous Religious Celebrations at
When Belief Arises from Interaction: Pagan Relationships to Other- Harvard’s Peabody Museum
Than-Human Spirits Responding:
Barbara Jane Davy, University of Waterloo Seth Schermerhorn, Hamilton College
Wyrd Relations: Relational Ontology and the Gift Ethic
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A25-315 W Japanese Religions Unit
Cultural History of the Study of Religion Unit and Religion,
Theme: Redefining “Religionists”: New Perspectives on “Religious
Media, and Culture Unit Professionalism” in Early Modern Through Contemporary Japan
Theme: Curating Religion: Museums and Their Visual Publics in Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Global Context
Mark Rowe, McMaster University, Presiding
Dana Mirsalis, Harvard University
Peter Manseau, National Museum of American History, Presiding Moving “Like Women”: Ritual Technique and the Gendering of the
Katja Rakow, Utrecht University Shinto Priesthood
Curating Religion in the “Harmony in Diversity Gallery” in
Timothy Smith, University of North Carolina
Singapore
“A Yōboku among Yōboku” : Institutional Hierarchies and Theological
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Louis Ruprecht, Georgia State University Equalities across Tenrikyō’s Past and Present
Curating the Profane: A Classical Scholar and a Public Profane
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina
Museum
Negotiating Religious Authority as a Female Jōdo Shin Healer in
Christina Pasqua, University of Toronto Contemporary Japan: The Case of Takumi Toyoko
Visualizing the Bible in a Christian Museum
Eric Tojimbara, University of California, Los Angeles
Responding: The Commercial Publication of Buddhist Books and the Blurring of
Sally M. Promey, Yale University “Secular” and “Religious” Labor in Early Modern Japan
Responding:
Jessica Starling, Lewis and Clark College
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Randy Powell, Washington State University
A25-318 Surviving the 1970s: Mormon Food Storage in American Culture
Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit Business Meeting:
Theme: Lutheranism and the Nordic Welfare State Sara Patterson, Hanover College, and Taylor Petrey, Kalamazoo
College, Presiding
Olli-Pekka Vainio, University of Helsinki, Presiding A25-321 S
Bo Kristian Holm, Aarhus University Nineteenth Century Theology Unit and Reformed Theology
The Lutheran Transformation of the Ideal of the Benevolent Ruler as
the Basis of Both Absolutism and Social Responsibility
and History Unit
Theme: Protestantism, Secularization, and Theological Innovation
Nina Koefoed, Aarhus University
Authority and Responsibility in the Lutheran Household in the Early Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Danish Democracy and Welfare State Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400B (Fourth Level)
Sasja Emilie Mathiasen Stopa, Aarhus University Annette G. Aubert, Westminster Theological Seminary, and Matthias
Trusting God and His Earthly Masks: An Exploration into the Gockel, University of Basel, Presiding
Lutheran Roots of the Scandinavian High-Trust Culture Ryan Kelley, Santa Barbara, CA
Responding: Ludwig Feuerbach’s Secularization of Luther’s Christology
Lee Palmer Wandel, University of Wisconsin Matthew Graham, Indiana University
Dickinson, Kierkegaard, and 19th Century Secularism
Michelle Sanchez, Harvard University
A25-319 “Worldview” Christianity as Reoccupied Secularism: The Modern
Legacy of Reformed Reactionaries
Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit and Religions in the
Latina/o Americas Unit
Theme: Between Power and Play: Latin American Masculinities in
Institutional and Informal Contexts
A25-322 A
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Philosophy of Religion Unit
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level) Theme: A Book Panel on Religion, Ethics, and the Practice of
Modern Politics under Conditions of Injustice
Matthew Peter Casey, Arizona State University, Presiding
Veronique Lecaros, Pontifical Catholic University of Peru
From Criminal Leader to Religious Leader: Conversion to Marriott Marquis-Vista (South Tower - First Level)
Pentecostalism in a Provincial Peruvian Jail Alda Balthrop-Lewis, Australian Catholic University, Presiding
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Danielle Dempsey, University of California, Riverside, and Jessica Panelists:
Rehman, University of California, Riverside Molly Farneth, Haverford College
On Ideological Colonization: Exploring the Relationship between Joseph Winters, Duke University
the Roman Catholic Church and Colonial Constructions of “Gender
Theory” Randi Rashkover, George Mason University
Alejandro Escalante, University of North Carolina
Playful Masculinity: Drag Performance in La Fiesta de Santiago and
Religious Belonging
A25-323 C
Responding: Platonism and Neoplatonism Unit
Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada, Kalamazoo College Theme: Neoplatonic Elements in the Islamic and Christian
Traditions
A25-320 C Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Mormon Studies Unit John Turner, University of Nebraska, Presiding
Theme: Systems of Survival: Sex, Kinship, and Food Storage in Parisa Zahiremami, University of Toronto
Mormon Culture The Intellect, Love, and Human Ascent: The Intersection of
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Neoplatonism and Islamic Mysticism in Sanā’ī’s ΖDGưTDWDOΗDTưTDK
Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Level) Joshua Hollmann, Concordia College, New York
Eros and Ascent in Nicholas of Cusa’s Mystical and Dialogical
Sara Patterson, Hanover College, Presiding Theology
Megan Stanton, University of Wisconsin
Eva Braunstein, University of California, Santa Barbara
Authoritative Kinship: Mormon Sects’ Symbolic Inheritance of Smith
Immanent Ascent in Nicholas of Cusa’s De Visione Dei
Family Members
Business Meeting:
Sara Moslener, Central Michigan University
So Much Greater Than a Cupcake: Celestial Marriage, Sexual Purity Kevin Corrigan, Emory University, Presiding
and Its Discontents in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-326 #rpc
A25-324 Theme: Twain’s Modern Heaven, Kerouac’s Orientalism, and
Code-Era Catholic Censorship: Rethinking Popular Culture
Queer Studies in Religion Unit Through American Religious History
Theme: Queer Transgressions Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East) Eden Consenstein, Princeton University, Presiding
S.J. Crasnow, Rockhurst University, Presiding Brook Wilensky-Lanford, University of North Carolina
Brandon Ambrosino, Villanova University “The Pearly Gates Wide Open”: Mark Twain, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps,
Ye Shall Find the Bae Wrapped in Swaddling Clothes: Towards a and the Popularization of a Modern Heaven
Christology of Drag Michael McLaughlin, Florida State University
Tyson Herberger, Inland Norway University Close Your Eyes: Catholic Censorship of Gun Violence in Code-Era
Shifting Orthodox Rabbinic Attitudes towards Transgender Inclusion Hollywood Films
Yannik Thiem, Columbia University Sarah Haynes, Western Illinois University
Rituals of Queer Transgression and Religious Performativity Panics Kerouac’s Rucksack Revolution: Orientalism, Popular Culture, and
Buddhism in America
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Religion and Ecology Unit
Theme: Theorizing Publics in Religion and Ecology
Theme: A Guide to Teaching and Research with Quantitative
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Data for the Suspicious and Afraid: A Roundtable of Friendly
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire M (Fourth Level) Sociologists of Religion
Kimberly Carfore, University of San Francisco, Presiding Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Timothy Harvie, Saint Mary’s University, Alberta, Canada Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East)
Political Lament: Ecocide and Embodied Silence in Public Spaces Jeffrey Guhin, University of California, Los Angeles, Presiding
Amanda Nichols, University of Florida Panelists:
Hope Spots for Our Blue Heart: An In-Depth Study of the Lifework of
Todd Ferguson, Baylor University
Sylvia Earle and the Gendered Dynamics of Climate Weirding
Arthur Farnsley, Indiana University-Purdue University,
Whitney Bauman, Florida International University Indianapolis
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Erotic Thinking as Public Resistance
A25-328
Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit
and Traditions of Eastern Late Antiquity Unit
Theme: Religious Life on the Silk Road
James McGrath, Butler University, Presiding
Richard A. Freund, University of Hartford
The Caves of Letters: Jewish Texts and Communities from the Silk
Road to the Via Maris
Zsuzsanna Gulácsi, Northern Arizona University
The Syro-Mesopotamian Ties of Uygur Manichaean Book Culture
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Giselle Bader, University of Sydney Tamar Wasoian, Evanston, IL
Processes of Globalisation in Early Armenian Pilgrimage to the Holy Eradication of Monuments, Eradication of Memory: The Forgotten
Land Legacy of the Armenian Deaconesses
Jessi Taylor, University of British Columbia
A25-329 A “Once She’s Baptised, That Would Be a Sin”: Short Term Impacts of
Religious Violence on the Use of Sexual Violence in the Bosnian War
Religion in South Asia Unit Business Meeting:
Theme: Ten Years of “The Śaiva Age”: Selected Topics on Its Kate Temoney, Montclair State University, Presiding
Impact on the Field
A25-332 C
Hamsa Stainton, McGill University, Presiding Religion, Memory, History Unit
Adam Krug, University of Colorado Theme: American Memories: Uneasy Legacies in American
Studying Vajrayāna Buddhism Ten Years after the “Śaiva Age”: Religion
Micro-Comparative Methods in the Study of South Asian Religions Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Anna A. Golovkova, Bowdoin College Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level)
A Goddess for the Second Millennium: Working with Sanskrit Sources Tim Langille, Arizona State University, Presiding
in North America
Marie W. Dallam, University of Oklahoma
Ellen Gough, Emory University The Legacy of Mormon Polygamy in Contemporary Visual Art
The Jain Monk 1DQGLJKRΙDVǍUL and the Emergence of Tantra from
Asceticism Elena Kravchenko, Washington University, St. Louis
Sacred Fight Against Racism: Remembering African American
Michael Slouber, Western Washington University History Through Orthodox Christian Forms
Philology in Goddess Studies
Jenny Wiley Legath, Princeton University
A Historian at the Intersection of Public Memory and Family History:
A25-330 C My Great-Great Grandfather’s “Narrative from an Old Confederate”
Responding:
Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit Christopher Cantwell, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Theme: Labor, Law, and the Power of Language: Postcolonial Business Meeting:
Perspectives
Rachel Gross, San Francisco State University, and Tim Langille,
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Arizona State University, Presiding
Syed Adnan Hussain, Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Presiding
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The Politics of Enumeration and the Casteification of Shi’ism in Religious Conversions Unit
Colonial India
Theme: Pentecostal Conversion in Global Perspective: A
Whitney Wilkinson Arreche, Duke University Roundtable Discussion of Faith in Flux: Pentecostalism and
MasterClass: Performative Mastery in Academy, Economy, and Mobility in Rural Mozambique (University of Pennsylvania Press,
Church 2018)
Alexander Rocklin, College of Idaho Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Religion before the Law: Labor, Colonial Secularism, and the Politics Convention Center-11A (Upper Level West)
of Freedom in Colonial Trinidad
Marc Pugliese, Saint Leo University, Presiding
Business Meeting:
Panelists:
Adrian Hermann, University of Bonn, and Prea Persaud,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte, Presiding Judith Casselberry, Bowdoin College
Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego
Nimi Wariboko, Boston University
A25-331 C Eliza Kent, Skidmore College
Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit Responding:
Theme: Gender and Genocide Devaka Premawardhana, Emory University
Sarah K. Pinnock, Trinity University, Presiding
Alexander Maurits, Lund University
Religious Beliefs and Expressions among Female Christian Prisoners
in the Ravensbrück Concentration Camp
Joshua Schwartz, New York University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 Feeling God and the Broken Heart: Affective (Comm)union in Later
Jewish Mysticism
Daniel May, Princeton University
A25-334 Hannah Arendt’s Refugee Politics: Jewish Identity and the Politics of
the Prepolitical
Ritual Studies Unit and Roman Catholic Studies Unit
Jeremy Brown, McGill University
Theme: Sacramental Logics and Ritual Space in the Early Modern “I Saw What I’m Not Permitted to Say”: Religious Violence from
Catholic Atlantic World Public Spectacle to Martyrological Speculation in the Zohar
Skyler Reidy, University of Southern California, Presiding A25-337
Joy Palacios, University of Calgary Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Sacramental Logics and Antitheatrical Sentiment in Early Modern Theme: The Jew, the Christian, and the Ends of the World
France
Richard Reinhardt, University of Michigan
Sacraments, Servitude, and Sacrilege Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level)
Timothy Snediker, University of California, Santa Barbara, Presiding
J. Michelle Molina, Northwestern University
Moral Laxity and Penitential Anxiety in the Sacramental Public Sarah Pessin, University of Denver
Sphere Hypostasis, Home…Host? Inhabiting Economic v. Created v.
Eucharistic Worlds in Levinas
Responding:
Josiah Solis, Claremont Graduate University
Brenna Moore, Fordham University Cosmological Play: Derrida and the World
Benjamin Steele-Fisher, University of California, Davis
A25-335 #islamaar A Messianic Illusions: Taubes on Bloch and Benjamin
Tal-Hi Bitton, University of Oregon
Study of Islam Unit Friendships Derived from Enmities: Understanding the Israeli-
Theme: Roundtable on W. Hallaq’s Restating Orientalism: A Palestinian Conflict as Christian Theogeopolitical Colonization
Critique of Modern Knowledge (Columbia University Press, 2018) Responding:
Oona Eisenstadt, Pomona College
Ruqayya Yasmine Khan, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding
Panelists: A25-338 W
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Omar Farahat, McGill University Women and Religion Unit

Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande, Princeton University Theme: Subversive and Creative Leadership and Activism of
Ahmad Ahmad, University of California, Santa Barbara Women: Religion, Politics, and the Public Sphere
Wendell Marsh, Northwestern University Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Boyung Lee, Iliff School of Theology, Presiding
A25-336 Grazina Bielousova, Duke University
Study of Judaism Unit The Art of Blasphemy: Lithuanian Feminist Protest and the Sacredness
of National Reproduction
Theme: Feelings of Dislocation and Disaffection: Jews at the
Borders of the Political Jue Liang, University of Virginia
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM “I Am Not a Buddhist Feminist”: Gender Discourse among Tibetan
Buddhist Nuns at Larung Gar
Rebecca Berru Davis, Montana State University
Andrea Dara Cooper, University of North Carolina, Presiding
Border Crossings: Latina Women’s Restorative Interventions through
Marva Shalev Marom, Stanford University Art and Activism
Creating Resilience: Learning Hebrew through the Arts at a Jewish
Refugee Camp in Gondar, Ethiopia Responding:
Rosemary P. Carbine, Whittier College
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Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism Unit Student Lounge Roundtable
Theme: Centering Women of Color in Religious Dialogue: Race, Theme: Can I Tweet That? How to Engage Responsibly, Form
Gendered Bodies, and Justice Digital Networking Relationships, and Dispel Social Media
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Skepticism
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level) Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
JungJa Joy Yu, Claremont Graduate University, Presiding Convention Center-14B (Mezzanine Level)
Sadaf Jaffer, Princeton University In a world of tweets, posts, likes, and comments, navigating social
Love, Justice, and the South Asian American Scholar/Activist media can seem worthless. There are no boundaries or rules that
govern the digital world leaving many confounded by the lack of
Robin Bruce, Naropa University ethical and moral ramifications. Your online image becomes an
White Supremacist Yoga: A Black Feminist Perspective on Cultural opportunity to express your personal brand and professional ideas.
Appropriation, Systemic Racism, and “Healing Maps” toward Future Students, adjunct faculty, and aspiring scholars are now expected
Reconciliation to engage the public online — specifically, on social media. Critical
Danielle Buhuro, Chicago Theological Seminary conversations are happening on Twitter threads; Facebook memes
Retweeting Rizpah: Care-Fronting Black Church in Addressing Black become sites of affective cultural conversations; and Instagram’s
Female Transphobia on Social Media unique thread of curated, live stories connect people to one another
in ways that are real and intangible — a humanized digitization of
Responding: the scholar behind the writing. For the Student Lounge Roundtable,
Lorena Parrish, Wesley Theological Seminary Heidi and Madison will demonstrate effective usage of tags, hashtags,
Business Meeting: and locations to broaden conversational scopes, and discuss the pros
and cons of social media platforms for active and critical engagement
Deborah Rogers, Lane College, Presiding
with published materials, scholars and faculty, and responsible
self-advertising. We will examine Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
A25-340 SR and LinkedIn — but will reserve time for emerging social media
platforms. Madison, a social media manager and religion and media
Artificial Intelligence and Religion Seminar scholar, and Heidi, a religion and media scholar, hope to facilitate an
imperative discussion about the REACH of social media: Research,
Theme: Surveying the Landscape Engagement, Audience, Cleverness, High stakes.
Monday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM Panelists:
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level) Madison Tarleton, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver
Randy Reed, Appalachian State University, Presiding Heidi Ippolito, Iliff School of Theology, University of Denver
Joshua Urich, Trinity University San Antonio
“He Was Only a God:” Sherlock Holmes and the Origins of an ASI
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
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David Zvi Kalman, University of Pennsylvania
Artificial Intelligence and Jewish Thought: A Roadmap
African Religions Unit
Theme: Ritual and Imagination in African Religions
Justin Hawkins, Yale University
“The Most Terrifying Thought Experiment of All Time:” Roko’s Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Basilisk, Antinatalism, and the Pascal’s Wager of Creating the Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level)
Singularity Sara Fretheim, University of Edinburgh, Presiding
Beth Singler, University of Cambridge Shannon Frediani, Starr King School of Theology
“Blessed by the Algorithm”: Theistic Conceptions of Artificial Ritual Theatre as Communal Practices of Resistance and Healing
Intelligence as Entanglements of AI and Religion
Daria Trentini, Drake University
Pamela Eisenbaum, Iliff School of Theology, and Theodore Vial, “Majini Refused to Come out”: Ritual Failure and Religious Change
Iliff School of Theology in Northern Mozambique
Autonomy, Automatons, and AI
Dianna Bell, University of Capetown
Takeshi Kimura, University of Tsukuba Ara Dreams: One Malian Woman’s Reflection on Fertility, Islam, and
Artificial Other and Natural Other: When a Human Meets A.I. Dream Interpretation
Matthew Jones, Fuller Theological Seminary
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 The Beauty of a People
Holly Mitchem, Graduate Theological Union
Spiritual Armor: Religious Paintings for the American Armed Forces
A25-402 #animalsaar19 H in World War II
Animals and Religion Unit
Theme: Christian Ecological Engagements with Institutional
Practice
A25-405 #innovatingspiritualcare UR
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Buddhism in the West Unit and Innovations in Chaplaincy
and Spiritual Care Unit
Theme: Buddhist Chaplaincy Education and Pedagogy
Margaret B. Adam, Saint Stephen’s House, Oxford, Presiding
Panelists:
David Clough, University of Chester
Scott Mitchell, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Presiding
Abby Mohaupt, Drew University
Elaine Yuen, Naropa University
Tim Van Meter, Methodist Theological School in Ohio Attending with Body, Speech, and Mind: Chaplaincy Training at
Randy Woodley, George Fox Seminary Naropa University
Responding: Leigh Miller, Maitripa College
Laurel D. Kearns, Drew University Buddhist Spiritual Care and Chaplaincy Training at Maitripa
College
Jitsujo T. Gauthier, University of the West
A25-403 A Buddhist Chaplaincy Education: Integrating Academic, Practitioner,
and Caregiver
Anthropology of Religion Unit and Religion and the Social
Sciences Unit Daijaku Judith Kinst, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate
Theological Union
Theme: Authors Meet Each Other: Religion and Sexuality in the Buddhist Foundations for Effective Chaplaincy: Graduate Education
Social Field at the Institute of Buddhist Studies
Panelists: A25-406
David Seitz, Harvey Mudd College Buddhism Unit
Jessica Johnson, College of William and Mary Theme: Open Up and Say “Ah”: East and Southeast Asian
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Monique Moultrie, Georgia State University Buddhist Medicinal Paradigms vis-a-vis Scientific Epistemologies
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Reiko Ohnuma, Dartmouth College, Presiding
A25-404 Anthony Irwin, University of Wisconsin
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Religion and Politics Miraculous Making and Miraculous Healing: The Image of Jīvaka
Unit Komārabhacca in Modern Thailand
Theme: Religion, War, and the Empire in Arts and Literature II: Thomas Patton, City University of Hong Kong
Europe and the U.S. Medicine Wizards of Myanmar: Four Recent Facebook Posts
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Paula K. R. Arai, Louisiana State University
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level) Painting Emptiness: Healing Viewed through Microscopic and
Telescopic Lenses Focused on the Heart Sūtra
Matthew Potts, Harvard University, Presiding
Justin Stein, Bukkyo University
Jean Cotting, Virginia Theological Seminary The Neurophysiology of Enlightenment: Hara Tanzan’s Zen Method,
Handel’s Joshua: Leading the British People into the Promised Land Neuroscience, and Psychosomatic Buddhist Medicine
Brian M. Britt, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Responding:
University
The Art of War in the Work of Two Jewish Women from Berlin C. Pierce Salguero, Pennsylvania State University, Abington
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Buddhist Philosophy Unit Cognitive Science of Religion Unit
Theme: Back to Basics: What Is Dharma? Theme: Current Theories and Applications of the Cognitive
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Science of Religion
Convention Center-4 (Upper Level West) Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Pierre-Julien Harter, University of New Mexico, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501B (Fifth Level)
Dhruv Nagar, University of Chicago Connor Wood, Center for Mind and Culture, Presiding
Dharma in between Process, Event and Substance Metaphysics: The Paul Robertson, University of New Hampshire, and Robert Ross,
Place and Development of Abhidhammic Dhamma Theory in Early University of New Hampshire
Indian Intellectual History Examination of Attention and Retention for Different Types of
Cameron Wright, University of South Florida Religious Concepts Using EEG
The Soteriological Relevance of Time in the Sarvastivada Theory of Hillary Lenfesty, Arizona State University, and Thomas Morgan,
dharma Arizona State University
Joy Brennan, Kenyon College The Role of Religion and Prestige in Human Prosociality
The Whole Path in Each Dharma: The Concept of a Dharma According Business Meeting:
to Yogācāra and Huayan Thought Travis Chilcott, Iowa State University, and Hillary Lenfesty,
Arizona State University, Presiding
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Childhood Studies and Religion Unit
Theme: Understanding Children’s Spiritual Development: Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and
Ethnographic Strategies and Results Feminist Theory and Religious Reflection Unit
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Theme: Religion and Gendered Racial Violence in the
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level) Contemporary United States
Melva L. Sampson, Wake Forest University, Presiding Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Ragnhild Fauske, Volda University College Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410B (Fourth Level)
Tombstones, Zombies, Dead Siblings, and Existential Questions Diane Fruchtman, Rutgers University, Presiding
Mary Gratton, Malvern, PA Hilda Koster, Concordia College, Moorhead
The Moral Experiences of Early Adolescents Fractured Lands/Fractured Bodies: Petroculture, Religion, and
Violence against Native Women in the Dakotas
Katarina Westerlund, Uppsala University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Christian Youth Leaders Learning in Christian Spirituality Hilary Scarsella, Vanderbilt University
Blessed Are Those Who Have Believed but Not Seen: The Theo-Logics of
Business Meeting:
Misogyn(oir)istic Incredulity in Women’s Testimonies of Harm
Sally Stamper, Capital University, Presiding
Rosemary Kellison, University of West Georgia
Empathy and Anger as Democratic Virtues, Vices, or Violence
A25-409 Brandy Daniels, University of Virginia
Sexual Violence, the Social/Symbolic Order, and the “End” of Sexual
Christian Systematic Theology Unit Subjectivity: A Negative Queer-Feminist Political Theological Proposal
Theme: Thinking Through Nature and Grace
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire M (Fourth Level)
Natalia Marandiuc, Southern Methodist University, Presiding
David Baird, Catholic Pacific College
Natura Praesupponit Gratiam: On the Absolute Antecedence of Grace
David Grumett, University of Edinburgh
De Lubac and the Grace of Christ
Lauren White, Lipscomb University
Nature Completed by Grace, Nature Welcomed by Grace: Towards a
Hermeneutic of Nuptial Encounter
Daoist Studies Unit
A25-412 Theme: Authenticity, Wellness, and the Daoist Curriculum
Critical Approaches to Hip-Hop and Religion Unit and Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202B (Second Level)
Religion, Media, and Culture Unit
Tobias Zuern, Washington University, St. Louis, Presiding
Theme: Societal Networks: Cultural Intersections of Religion,
Media, and Hip-Hop Bede Bidlack, Saint Anselm College
A Pedagogy from Somewhere: Teaching Daoism Comparatively
Matthew Duperon, Susquehanna University
Authenticity and Self-Forgetting: Teaching Zhuangzi with
Daniel White Hodge, North Park University, Presiding Introspective Techniques from the Text”
Annie Rose O’Brien, University of North Carolina Beverley Zhang, Arizona State University
“We Are Not a Conquered People”: Contact, Identity, and Daoist Zhenren and Well-Being
Reconfiguration through the Music of A Tribe Called Red
Pamela D. Winfield, Elon University
William Chavez, University of California, Santa Barbara No Needles Required: Teaching Daoist Healing Techniques
The Fight against Afro-Oblivion: Masters of the Sun (2017) as a
Celebration of Hip-Hop Culture Responding:
Erika Gault, University of Arizona Randall Nadeau, Trinity University
“Hip Hop Is at the Core of Who I Am”: (Re)Defining Black Christian
Millennials
Responding:
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Elonda Clay, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Ecclesiological Investigations Unit
Theme: Public Theologies and Pope Francis: Economics,
Technology, and Bodies
A25-413 Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Critical Theory and Discourses on Religion Unit Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level)
Theme: Contagion: A Roundtable Matthew Eaton, King’s College, Presiding
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Panelists:
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400B (Fourth Level) Laura Stivers, Dominican University of California
Isaac Weiner, Ohio State University, Presiding Brianne Jacobs, Fordham University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Cara Rock-Singer, Cornell University Timothy Harvie, Saint Mary’s University, Alberta, Canada
Guns, Germs, and Jesus: Vulnerability, Risk, and Resilience of the
Jewish Ritual Bath
John Modern, Franklin and Marshall College A25-416
William S. Burroughs, Scientology, and Virus Words that Eat the Gay Men and Religion Unit and Religion, Memory, and
Brain to Muttering Shreds
History Unit
Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez, Temple University Theme: Queer Memory, Trauma, and Religion
Challenging the Great Physician: Mental Pathogens and Spiritual
Contagion in Late-19th Century America Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Jennifer Scheper Hughes, University of California, Riverside
Contagion, Conversion, and the Church of the Dead in Mexico Rachel Gross, San Francisco State University, Presiding
Richard Kent Evans, Haverford College Whitney Cox, Rowan University
Quakers, Religious Madness, and the Cognitive Limits of Experience No Atheist Panels: Religious and Secular Representation in the
Houston AIDS Quilt Display, 1988
Laura S. Levitt, Temple University
The Proliferative Logic of Relics as Contagion Jane Nichols, Emory University
ACT-UP, “Stop the Church,” and the Theological Implications of a
Liturgical Protest
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Brett Krutzsch, Haverford College
The Trauma of Pulse and the Queer Potential of Memorialization A25-419 A
Responding: Law, Religion, and Culture Unit and Religion and Economy
W. Scott Haldeman, Chicago Theological Seminary Unit and Secularism and Secularity Unit
Theme: Author-Meets-Critics Session: Robert Yelle, Sovereignty
and the Sacred: Secularism and the Political Economy of Religion
A25-417 #jainstudiesaar (University of Chicago Press, 2018)
Jain Studies Unit Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Padma Padma: New Studies in the Jain Rāma Tradition Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East)
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Richard Amesbury, Arizona State University, Presiding
Marriott Marquis-Presidio 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Panelists:
John E. Cort, Denison University, Presiding Finbarr Curtis, Georgia Southern University
Eva De Clercq, Ghent University Kate Rosenblatt, Emory University
“Did He Kill His Own Brother? For a Woman? In a Disgraceful Kerry Sonia, Washington and Lee University
Manner?”: Jain Approaches to the Death of Vālin
Winnifred Sullivan, Indiana University
Seema Chauhan, University of Chicago
Responding:
Crossing Boundaries: The Padmacarita’s Refutation of Kumārila
Robert A. Yelle, University of Munich
Gregory Clines, Trinity University
For Poetry Makes Nothing Happen: Toward an Understanding of
Later Jain Rāma Composition
Adrian Plau, Wellcome Institute, London
A25-420 C
The Jain 5ƘPƘ\DΧD as Kathā: Rāmcand Bālak’s Sītācarit Liberal Theologies Unit
Responding: Theme: Theology and the Charge of Liberal Complicity with
Totalitarianism
Philip Lutgendorf, University of Iowa
A25-418 Joel Harrison, Northwestern University, Presiding
Korean Religions Unit Stephanie Wong, Valparaiso University
Liberalism in Chinese Catholicism: Resisting State Confucianism and
Theme: Identity and Politics in Transnational Contexts of Korean Church Supremacy in Beiyang, China
Protestantism
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Aaron Stauffer, Union Theological Seminary in the City of New
York
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 501A (Fifth Level) Our Last Best Chance? Harry Ward’s Radical Social Gospel, Liberal
Deberniere Torrey, University of Utah, Presiding Theology and Soviet Communism
Timothy S. Lee, Brite Divinity School Colin Bossen, Rice University
“No Neutrality for Brutality”: Protestant Missionaries’ Response to the The Liberalism of the (Second) Ku Klux Klan
1919 March First Independence Movement in Korea
Ulrich Schmiedel, University of Edinburgh
JungJa Joy Yu, Claremont Graduate University Who Is Afraid of Liberalism? Ernst Troeltsch’s Political Theology
Transnational Ties of Gendered Korean Immigrant Evangelical
Responding:
Churches in North America
Fatima Tofighi, University of Religions
Ray Kim, Georgetown University
Muslim Migrants and Refugees in Korea: Perceived Threats to the Business Meeting:
Korean Church’s Global Aspirations Sarah Morice Brubaker, Phillips Theological Seminary, Presiding
Responding:
Hwansoo Kim, Yale University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-423 C
Native Traditions in the Americas Unit
A25-421 CA Theme: The Law of the Land: Native American Religious
Traditions and North American Legal Systems
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Unit Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Theme: Author Meets Critics: Harshita Mruthinti Kamath’s Convention Center-28B (Upper Level East)
Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dennis Kelley, University of Missouri, Presiding
Dance (University of California Press, 2019)
Stacie Swain, University of Victoria
Crown Land or Qat’muk? Contextualizing the Canadian “Public
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204B (Second Level) Interest” and Indigenous Political Rights within Sacred Site
Amanullah De Sondy, University College Cork, Presiding Jurisprudence
Panelist: Business Meeting:
Mary Whitney Kelting, Northeastern University Michael Zogry, University of Kansas, Presiding
Sarah Imhoff, Indiana University
Juliane Hammer, University of North Carolina
A25-424
Amanda Lucia, University of California, Riverside
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath, Emory University North American Religions Unit and Space, Place, and
Business Meeting: Religion Unit
Linda G. Jones, University of Pompeu Fabra, and Amanullah De Theme: Working the Edges: New Approaches to Space and
Sondy, University College Cork, Presiding Community in America
A25-422 Samira Mehta, Albright College, Presiding
Mormon Studies Unit and Theology and Continental Andrew Gardner, Florida State University
Philosophy Unit Pastoring the Nation: The “Theo-Spatial” Politics of an Antebellum
Seminary Education
Theme: Mormon Theology and Continental Thought
James Dupey, Arizona State University
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Mail Order Christianity: Alexander Campbell and the
Convention Center-17A (Mezzanine Level) Commoditization of Religious Material Production
Taylor Petrey, Kalamazoo College, Presiding Sher Tareen, Florida State University
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Joseph Spencer, Brigham Young University Raising Children on the Iceskating Rink: Corporate Stewardship,
Faith of an Observer: Francois Laruelle and (Latter-Day Saint) Race, and the Muslim Practices of Motherhood in Reston, Virginia
Theology Adrienne Krone, Allegheny College
Kimberly Berkey, Loyola University, Chicago Roots in the Past, Seeds for the Future: A Revived Historical Jewish
Plastic Mormons, Plastic Texts: Catherine Malabou and Latter-Day Community Farm in New Jersey Takes on Climate Change
Saint Theology
Adam S Miller, Collin College
Performativity, Messianism, and Mormonism
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Pentecostal–Charismatic Movements Unit Qur’an Unit
Theme: Space, Place, and Pentecostalism Theme: Modes of Qur’an Interpretation
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level) Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 311A (Third Level)
Sammy Alfaro, Grand Canyon Theological Seminary, Presiding Munim Sirry, University of Notre Dame, Presiding
Alan J. Clark, Claremont Graduate University Hadia Mubarak, Guilford College
Meet the Mormons: Pentecostal and Latter-Day Saint Religious When Husbands Are Guilty of Sexual Neglect: Shifts in Modern
Interactions in Utah Qur’anic Exegesis on Q. 4:128
Joel Tejedo, Asia Pacific Theological Seminary Shuaib Ally, University of Toronto
Doing Pentecostal Civic Engagement in the Squatter Area of Baguio Negotiating Meaning: 13th and 14th C Glosses on Zamakhsharī’s
City, Philippines Qur’ān Commentary
Dara Delgado, University of Dayton Relwan Onikoyi, Temple University
Healing Is the Children’s Bread: Healing as Theo-Political Resistance Al-Maturidi and Abu Layth al-Samarqandi on the Day of the
and Survival among Black Holiness Pentecostals in the Urban North Covenant: Hanafi Exegesis and the Basis of Human Obligation to
during the Migration Era God
Daniela C. Augustine, Lee University Samuel Ross, Texas Christian University
Seeking the Welfare of the City: Cultivating Pentecostal Spirituality of Can the Bible Determine the Meaning of the Qur’an? New
Urban Sustainability Developments in Modern Tafsir
Responding:
Daniel Ramirez, Claremont Graduate University
A25-428
A25-426 CH Theme: Atonement, the Cross, and the Christian Life
Pragmatism and Empiricism in American Religious Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Thought Unit Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level)
Theme: Democracy, Ecology, and the Posthuman Christina Larsen, Grand Canyon University, Presiding
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Alden McCray, University of Saint Andrews
Convention Center-11A (Upper Level West) Jürgen Moltmann and John Calvin on Classical Theism and the
Karen Rucks, Quinsigamond Community College, Presiding Pastoral Benefits of the Atonement
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Caleb Murray, Brown University Rachel Teubner, Australian Catholic University
Prophetic Pragmatism in a Changing Climate: Tragedy, Fallibility, Narrating Atonement: Expanding Feminist-Reformed Subjectivities
and the Ethics of Anthropocentrism through Genre
Jacob Goodson, Southwestern College Travis Pickell, University of Virginia
The Difficulty of Reality, Divided Selves, and Sick Souls: William Between Cross and Resurrection: Three Views of Holy Saturday in
James’s Philosophy of Religion after Cora Diamond’s Animal Ethics Ecclesial Art, Liturgy, and Practice
Brandon Daniel-Hughes, John Abbott College
Toward a Democratic Conception of Community beyond the Human
Robert Smid, Curry College
Representation, Rights, and the Concept of Rule: Using Pragmatist
Resources to Re-Think Biocracy
Business Meeting:
Karen Rucks, Quinsigamond Community College, and Joseph
Winters, Duke University, Presiding
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 A25-431 #rpc
A25-429 C Theme: Beyond Television: Religious Controversy in
Contemporary Televisual Mediascapes
Religion and Disability Studies Unit and Religion, Film, Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
and Visual Culture Unit Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East)
Theme: Awkward, Monstrous, Marvelous: Representations of Linda Ceriello, Rice University, Presiding
Disability in Visual Culture
Laurel Zwissler, Central Michigan University
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Feminists and Cannibals: Marginalized Religions in The Chilling
Convention Center-21 (Upper Level East) Adventures of Sabrina
Lina Verchery, Harvard University, Presiding Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, University of California, Berkeley
Helena Martin, Yale University The Qur’an in Turkish Television Series and Films
Martyrs and Monsters of the Avengers: Christian Ableism in the Rachel Wagner, Ithaca College
Marvel Universe The Testaments: The Handmaid’s Tale as Emerging Transmedia
Devan Stahl, Michigan State University
Visual Representation of “Monstrous” Bodies in Medicine and Religion
Tim Basselin, Dallas Theological Seminary A25-432
Positive about Disability: Recent Representations and What
Communities of Faith Can Learn by Watching
Theme: Lived Religious Expressions in Southern California
Business Meeting:
Heike Peckruhn, Daemen College, Presiding
Amanda Baugh, California State University, Northridge, Presiding
A25-430 Gerardo Marti, Davidson College, and Mark Mulder, Calvin
College
Religion and Food Unit and Women of Color Scholarship, The Financial Burden of Megachurch Charisma: How Robert H.
Teaching and Activism Unit Schuller’s Unsustainable, Business-Based Church Growth Model
Theme: Grounded Practices: Women of Color, Food, and Farming Bankrupted the Crystal Cathedral
Practices Jennifer Hahn, University of California, Santa Barbara
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM “Lived” Spirituality And Sacred Relationships in Alcoholics
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level) Anonymous in Southern California
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Sarah Robinson-Bertoni, Santa Clara University, Presiding

Wylin Dassie Wilson, Harvard University A25-433
Indeterminably Indebted to Society: Faith Communities, Food
Insecurity and Incarceration Religion in Europe Unit
Candace M. Laughinghouse, Chicago Theological Seminary Theme: Racial Afterlives in Post-Holocaust Germany: Jewish and
Spiritual Legacy of Women Working in Dirt Muslim (A)Synchronicities for a Christian-Secularized Self
Himanee Gupta-Carlson, SUNY Empire State College Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Rhythm and Ritual in Hip Hop and Farming Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Deborah Rogers, Lane College Cynthia M. Baker, Bates College, Presiding
Eco-Womanist Pedagogy and Spiritual Activism: Sustaining Work for Sultan Doughan, University of California, Berkeley
Justice in the Classroom and on the Farm Of Humans and Muselmanns: The Racial Afterlife of Religious
Responding: Difference in Post-Holocaust Germany
Kimberly Nettles-Barcelon, University of California, Davis Alexandra Zirkle, University of Chicago
Tortured Readings: Historicism and the Threat of Imperial Violence
Hannah Tzuberi, Freie Universität Berlin
Critique of Religion or Racism: On the Legibility and Categorization
of Vulnerability in Post-Holocaust Germany
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Luis Manuel Hernandez Aguilar, University of Amsterdam
The “Jewish” and “Muslim” Question through the Lens of Recursive
History: Circumcision Debates in Germany
A25-436 C
Religion, Affect, and Emotion Unit
Responding:
Theme: Borders and Felt Communities
Susannah Heschel, Dartmouth College
A25-434 Luis Menéndez-Antuña, California Lutheran University, Presiding
Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit Rebecca Moody, Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Reshaping Shared Space: Gender Norms, Quotidian Islam and Grand
and Religions, Medicines, and Healing Unit Taxis in Morocco
Theme: Religion, Healing, and Healthcare in Premodern Europe
Matthew Vanderpoel, University of Chicago
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Prosimetric Accretions: The Affect of Lack in Gerson’s Consolation of
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 204A (Second Level) Theology
Marla Segol, State University of New York, Buffalo, Presiding Lisa Gasson-Gardner, Drew University
Jonathan Zecher, Australian Catholic University When God Feels True: Charismatic-Evangelical Christian Practice
The Negotiation of Culture in Late Antique Clinical Practice: The Case and the Politics of Truth in the U.S.
of Alexander of Tralles and “Natural Remedies” Business Meeting:
Minji Lee, Reunion Institute Tam K. Parker, University of the South, Presiding
Gendered Healing: Mugwort Treatment in Medieval Christianity
and Gynecology
Claire Fanger, Rice University A25-437
Healing and Divine Embodiment: The Powers of the Virgin Mary in
the Cure of Bodies and Souls Sacred Texts and Ethics Unit
Theme: Reading Sacred Texts with the Other
A25-435 Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East)
Religion in South Asia Unit Elizabeth Goldstein, Gonzaga University, Presiding
Theme: The Buddha and the Banyan Tree: Hindu Assimilations of Ashleigh Elser, Hampden-Sydney College
Buddhist Traditions Luther’s Tears: Violent Narratives and Masculine Empathies
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM David de la Fuente, Fordham University
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level) Beyond the Upper Room and upon All Flesh: Pentecost,
Phenomenology, and Racial Justice in the Catholic Church
James G. Lochtefeld, Carthage College, Presiding
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Russell CD Arnold, Regis University
D. Mitra Barua, Rice University
Isaac as a Model for Interfaith Engagement
“The Scientific Study of Pali”: Bengali Buddhists’ Strategy to Dispel the
Shadow of Hinduism
Mallory Hennigar, Syracuse University A25-438 #islamaar
Rational Buddha: Ambedkarite Non-Brahmin Buddhist History
Joel Bordeaux, Stony Brook University Study of Islam Unit
Crossover Appeal: Exoticism and Localization of the Goddess Tārā in Theme: South Asian Islam and Modernity
Hindu Sources Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Bradley S. Clough, University of Montana Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire P (Fourth Level)
Interpretive Issues in the History of the Buddhāvatāra Concept in William Sherman, University of North Carolina, Charlotte,
9DLΙΧDYD Theology Presiding
Responding: Mohsin Ali, University of California, Los Angeles
Gudrun Bühnemann, University of Wisconsin Imagined Wahhabis: Disentangling British and Indian
Representations of Wahhabism in Colonial India
Megan Robb, University of Pennsylvania
Forming Muslim Emotions, Forming Muslim Nations: Writing and
Practicing Love and Regret in Muslim South Asia
SherAli Tareen, Franklin and Marshall College
Encountering the “Other”: Power, Politics, Political Theology
Responding:
Karen Ruffle, University of Toronto
Theology and Religious Reflection Unit
A25-439 A Theme: The Politics of Religion
Study of Judaism Unit Convention Center-3 (Upper Level West)
Theme: Roundtable on Mara Benjamin’s The Obligated Self Rakesh Peter-Dass, Hope College, Presiding
(Indiana University Press, 2018)
Jakub Urbaniak, Saint Augustine College of South Africa, and
Tshinyalani Khorommbi, Saint Augustine College of South
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level) Africa
Dustin Atlas, University of Dayton, Presiding Between “Numbness” and “Intoxication”: The Politics of Religion in
Panelists: South Africa Post-1994
Larisa Reznik, Goucher College Antoinette E. DeNapoli, Texas Christian University
“What the Government Won’t Give Us, God and the Courts Will!”:
Elizabeth Ann Pritchard, Bowdoin College How a Woman Guru’s Religious Politics of Gender Equality Is
Phillis Isabella Sheppard, Vanderbilt University Transforming Hinduism through the Indian Legal System
Responding: Syeda Beena Butool, Florida State University
Mara Benjamin, Mt. Holyoke College Mawdudi’s God and the Theopolitics to Decolonize the Muslims of
India
A25-440
A25-442 #womanists@aar
Tantric Studies Unit
Theme: Prajñāpāramitā, Pāla Period Buddhism and Its Himalayan Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Unit and
Legacy Women and Religion Unit
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Theme: Reproductive Justice Activists and Religious Scholars in
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310A (Third Level) Dialogue
Ronald M. Davidson, Fairfield University, Presiding Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM
Francesco Bianchini, University of Oxford
New Insights into a Remarkable Pāla Collection of Prajñāpāramitā Charity Woods, Interfaith Voices for Reproductive Justice, Presiding
Scriptures Panelists:
Greg Seton, Dartmouth College Naomi Leapheart, Lancaster Theological Seminary
The Impact of Tibetan Patronage on Indian Prajñāpāramitā Studies
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Cherisse Scott, SisterReach, Memphis, TN

in Pāla Period Buddhism
Ashlyn Strozier, Claremont Graduate University
Jinah Kim, Harvard University
Prajñāpāramitā’s Ritual Use in Pāla Period Buddhism: A Lesson from Responding:
Abhayākaragupta’s Vajrāvalī and Artistic Records Toni Bond Leonard, Claremont School of Theology
Alexander O’Neill, University of Toronto
The Ritual Worship of the Prajñāpāramitā in Nepal
A25-443 SR
Artificial Intelligence and Religion Seminar
Theme: Experiments in Artificial Intelligence and Religion
Philip Butler, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding
F. LeRon Shults, University of Agder, and Wesley J. Wildman,
Boston University
Simulating Secularities: Studying Religion and Nonreligion in
Artificial Societies
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Emanuelle Burton, University of Illinois, Chicago, and Thomas
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Strangers in a Strange Land: A Field Report from Two Religion
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Scholars Working in AI Program Unit Chairs’ and Steering Committee Members’
Elias Kruger, Acworth, GA Reception
Using Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to Monday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Analyze Large Theological Texts Marriott Marquis-AAR Suite
Randy Reed, Appalachian State University Program Unit Chairs and steering committee members are invited
A.I. and Religion, A.I. in Religion, A.I. for Religion: A.I. as a Tool for to a reception celebrating their contributions to the AAR Annual
Religious Studies Meeting.
Nathan R. B. Loewen, University of Alabama
Analyzing Philosophy of Religion Journals via Digital Humanities:
Plotting Futures for the Field TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26
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Origen and Origen Reception Seminar
Theme: The Reception of Origen’s Exegesis Coffee Break
Monday, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM Tuesday, 8:30 AM
Anders-Christian Jacobsen, Aarhus University, Presiding of Aisles 300 and 800 of the Exhibit Hall.
Miriam DeCock, Aarhus University
Origen and Theodoret on Psalm 15: An Exercise in Detecting Origen’s
Shadow in the Greek Patristic Exegetical Tradition
Erik Estrada, Texas Christian University A26-100
Divided by Origen: Origen’s Role in the Early Fifth-Century Western
Controversies over Faith, Works and Justification Anthropology of Religion Unit
Theme: Contact Zones: Commemorative, Diasporic, and
Liza Anderson, College of Saint Scholastica Interreligious Interactions
The Legacy of Origen’s Exegesis in 9th Century Syriac Christian
Theology Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Samuel Johnson, University of Notre Dame Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Sacramentum Evangelii: Origen on the Life of Jesus Jennifer A. Selby, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Presiding
Suma Ikeuchi, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Monday, 8:00 PM and Later Jesus Loves Japan: Global Pentecostalism and Brazilian Diaspora in
the Transpacific Contact Zones
Helen Orr, University of North Carolina
A25-500 L Contesting Sacred Travel from a Contact Zone: Bosnian Counter-
Memory and Legacies of Humanitarian Intervention
Film: Chosen (Custody of the Eyes): Film Screening
Kalpesh Bhatt, University of Toronto
Monday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM “Know Thyself ”: Reconstructing the “Public” in “Public Religion”
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 520 (Fifth Level) through the Construction of a Hindu Temple in California
Michael McNaught, Loyola Marymount University, Presiding Responding:
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calling: Becoming a cloistered nun in one of the strictest religious
orders. Set in a monastery just west of Chicago, Heather films her A26-102
journey, capturing ordinary life and spiritual practices rarely seen by
the outside world. Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit
A screening of the documentary, which was an official selection at Theme: The 50th Anniversary of the Creation of Ethnic Studies:
film festivals on four continents, will be followed by a Q&A with the Asian American Genealogical and Cross-Disciplinary Reflections
director on questions of trust and access with a secluded religious Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
community, and how ethnographic and oral history methodologies
were applied to a creative research-based work undertaken in Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 402 (Fourth Level)
collaboration with members of a monastic community that traces to SueJeanne Koh, University of California, Irvine, Presiding
Saint Francis and the medieval ear; members seek anonymity, observe Teng-Kuan Ng, Georgetown University
monastic silence, and make a vow of enclosure toward their mission— An Asian American Journey of Faith: Historiography, Missiology, and
to pray for the rest of humanity. Theology in Lin Yutang’s From Pagan to Christian
Panelist:
Abbie Reese, Independent Scholar and Filmmaker
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 A26-105 A
Hinduism Unit
Girim Jung, Claremont School of Theology
Dictee Revisited: Towards a Transoceanic Approach to Asian American Theme: Rethinking Hinduism: A Roundtable Discussion on Hindu
Religious Studies Pluralism (University of California Press, 2017) and Polemics and
Patronage in the City of Victory (University of California Press, 2016)
Justin Tse, Northwestern University
The Miseducation of Model Minorities: The “Gospel of Schoolvation” in Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Asian American Studies Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Tian An Wong, Smith College Jonathan Peterson, University of Toronto, Presiding
Rearticulating an Asian American Theology of Liberation Panelists:
Valerie Stoker, Wright State University
Elaine Fisher, Stanford University
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Patrick Cummins, Cornell University
Chinese Religions Unit Archana Venkatesan, University of California, Davis
Theme: Buddhism in Modern China Sarah Pierce Taylor, Concordia University
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Responding:
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Hamsa Stainton, McGill University
Megan Bryson, University of Tennessee, Presiding
Gilbert Chen, Washington University, St. Louis
To Keep Incense Burning and Lamps Lit: Local Buddhist Monastics’ A26-106 #aarhcs
Involvement in the Coal-Mining Business in Nineteenth-Century
Chongqing History of Christianity Unit
Hongyu Wu, Ohio Northern University Theme: History and Theology Roundtable
The Woman Question and the (Re)Construction of Buddhist Identity Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
in the Republican China (1911–1949) Convention Center-24A (Upper Level East)
Nan Ouyang, National University of Singapore Craig Prentiss, Rockhurst University, Presiding
Mobilizing Buddhists for Socialist Production: Disposal of Buddhist Panelists:
Properties on Mt. Jiuhua during the Mao Era (1949–1976)
Amy M. Hollywood, Harvard University
Sonia Velazquez, Indiana University
A26-104 Kris Trujillo, University of Chicago
Eastern Orthodox Studies Unit Andrew Walker-Cornetta, Princeton University
Theme: Orthodox Contemplation, Spirituality, and Encounters David Maldonado Rivera, Kenyon College
Ashley Purpura, Purdue University, Presiding
A26-107 AH
Open and Relational Theologies Unit
Ioana Patuleanu, Mercer County Community College
The Orthodox Contemplative Tradition Mirrored Back through the Theme: Book Panel: Ecological Solidarities: Mobilizing Faith and
Writings of the French Catholic Bishop François de la Motte Fénelon Justice in an Entangled World (Penn State University Press, 2019)
Luis Salés, Scripps College
Queer Female Holiness and Ethiopian Anti-Colonial Resistance in the Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East)
Gädlä Walatta Petros Krista E. Hughes, Newberry College, Presiding

Lori Branch, University of Iowa
Father Alexander Men’s Teachings on Prayer: Eastern and Western
Christian Spiritualities from a Russian Orthodox Perspective
Responding:
Brian A. Butcher, Metropolitan Andrey Sheptytsky Institute of
Eastern Christian Studies, Toronto
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Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Graduate Theological Union, Pacific A26-110
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Religion in South Asia Unit
Elaine Padilla, University of La Verne
Theme: Religious Didacticism in South Asia: Critical Assessments
Teresia Mbari Hinga, Santa Clara University of Jain and Hindu Literature
Peter C. Phan, Georgetown University Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Responding: Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level)
John B. Cobb, Center for Process Studies Arun Brahmbhatt, Saint Lawrence University, Presiding
Dhawn Martin, University Presbyterian Church Steven Vose, Florida International University
Caste Prestige as Religious Piety: Women’s Virtue in Early Vernacular
Jain Didactic Literature
A26-108 Iva Patel, University of Iowa
Religion and Cities Unit and Space, Place, and Religion Thinking through Tropes: Cognitive Practices and the Rhetoric of
Instruction in the Sarasiddhi of Nishkulanand Swami
Unit
Theme: Borders, Boundaries, and Barriers: Religious Examinations Eric Steinschneider, University of Arizona
of Spaces of Transgression and Conflict Something We Can All Agree upon: Didactic Literature and
Renunciation in Late-Precolonial South India
Sravani Kanamarlapudi, University of Washington
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level) Situating a Didactic Text in Its Narrative Context: The Case of the
Joanne Punzo Waghorne, Syracuse University, Presiding Viduranīti
Devon Abts, King’s College London Responding:
Dismantling the Barriers of the Religious Imagination: Political and
Postcolonial Theological Encounters with the Art of Khaled Jarrar Heidi R. M. Pauwels, University of Washington
Adam Newman, University of Virginia
Making Space in Mewar: At the Border of Trauma, Memory, and A26-111
History in Fifteenth-Century Rajasthan
Douglas Hardy, Nazarene Theological Seminary Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Unit
Crossing Over: Celtic Monastic City Borders as Invitatory Theme: Negotiating Islam and Racial Logics in Global Africana
Contexts
A26-109 Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level)
Religion and Politics Unit Deirdre DeBruyn Rubio, Harvard University, Presiding
Theme: Islam and Politics in Global Contexts Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University
Mosques and the Negotiation of Afro-Arab Identities in Contemporary
Tanzania
Youssef Carter, Harvard University
Rachel Scott, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, West African Sufi Pedagogy and the Matter of Black Lives
Presiding
Kirsten Wesselhoeft, Vassar College
Anna Piela, Northwestern University More Than Malcolm: US Islam as Religious and Racial Analytic in
Shifting between Experiences of Islamophobia and Racism: The Niqab French Muslim Communities
as a Focal Point for the Study of Intersections of Exclusion in the
United States and Great Britain Matthias Gebauer, University of Passau
Black Islam South Africa: Global Passages of Racialized Muslim
Ermin Sinanovic, Shenandoah University
Identities and the Bringing about of African Indigeneity in a Post-
Political Theology of Obedience in Contemporary Islamic Thought Colonial Society
Andreas Johansson, Lund University
Muslim Politics in Sri Lanka
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 A26-114 HK
A26-112 C Theme: Climate Change Is Everything Change: Integrating
Environmental Commitment in Religious Studies Courses
Science, Technology, and Religion Unit Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Theme: Science, Religion, and the Construction of Meaning Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Timothy Gutmann, University of Chicago, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level) Panelists:
Yunus Doğan Telliel, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Presiding Jennifer Thompson, California State University, Northridge
Ariela Marcus-Sells, Elon University Danielle Widmann Abraham, Ursinus College
Controlling the Unseen: The Scientific Imaginaries of the Kunta
Scholars
Amy Bix, Iowa State University A26-115
Time/Machine and Sacred Pauses for Meaning: Religion, Work, and
the Quest for Control amidst Chaotic Technological Pressures Theology and Continental Philosophy Unit
Daniel Heifetz, Lewisburg, PA Theme: New Frontiers in Phenomenology of Religion
The Science of Satyug: Finding a Meaning for Science and Technology Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
in Neoliberal India Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 410A (Fourth Level)
Business Meeting: Adam Kotsko, North Central College, Presiding
Greg Cootsona, California State University, Chico, and Josh Andrew Tebbutt, University of Toronto
Reeves, Samford University, Presiding The Theological Re-Turn: Reading “The French Debate” through
Hegel’s Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Religion
Nixon Cleophat, Bloomfield College
A26-113 #islamaar Haitian Vodou, a Critical Lens Re-Contextualizing Hegel’s
Study of Islam Unit Phenomenology of Spirit: Spirit Possession as the Meta-Praxis of the
Liberation of the Historically Oppressed
Theme: Ways of Knowing in Premodern Islam: Morality,
Orthodoxy, and Aesthetics Matt Waggoner, Albertus Magnus College
On Certain Anti-Urban Inclinations in the Early Phenomenology of
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Religion
Willie Young, Endicott College
Elliott Bazzano, Le Moyne College, Presiding Ethnography, Phenomenology, and Social Embodiment in Religion
Caitlyn Olson, Harvard University
Commanding Right Belief and Forbidding Wrong: Islamic Theology
for the 10th/16th-Century Moroccan Masses
Youcef Soufi, University of Toronto
A26-116 C
The Formation of Classical Critical Islam: Munāzara (Legal Wesleyan and Methodist Studies Unit
Disputation) among Islamic Jurists in the 10th–13th Centuries Theme: Wesleyan and Methodist Missions Beyond Britain and
North America
Mohammad Sadegh Ansari, Columbia University
Miskawayh’s (d. 1030 CE) Treatise on Pleasure and Pain and the Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM
Possibility of an Islamic Aesthetics Discourse Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East)
Responding: Laceye Warner, Duke University, Presiding
Aun Hasan Ali, University of Colorado Boulder Robert Doyle Smith, Olivet Nazarene University
Methodist Mission to Muslims 1895–1925: A Critical Appraisal of
Methodism’s Attempt to Evangelize across the Religious Boundary of
Islam
Sergei Nikolaev, United Methodist Church
Julius Hecker: Methodist Missionary, Educator, and Martyr in Soviet
Russia
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Eric Hung, Duke University
Transnational Connectionalism at Work: The Foundation of Wei Li A26-119
Kung Hui (American Methodism) in Hong Kong
Arts, Literature, and Religion Unit and Comparative Studies
Glen O’Brien, University of Divinity
Samuel and Catherine Leigh in Aotearoa/New Zealand in Religion Unit
Theme: Destruction and Unmaking in Arts, Literature, and
Business Meeting:
Religion
Ted A. Campbell, Southern Methodist University, and Edgardo Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Colon-Emeric, Duke University, Presiding
Christopher Patrick Parr, Webster University, Presiding
A26-117 Sarah Corrigan, Harvard University
Burning Poetry, Hacking Crosses: Unmaking to Survive in
Women and Religion Unit Shalamov’s Gulag World
Theme: Remembering Women in Global Religion
William Stell, Princeton University
Tuesday, 8:30 AM–10:00 AM Rip the Bible Reverently: A Reading of Crafters’ Anxieties about a
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level) Book
Stephanie May, First Parish in Wayland, Presiding Kristine Whaley, University of Glasgow
Tamar Wasoian, Evanston, IL Grief and the Act of Fragmentation: The Redemptive Unmaking of
Armenian Deaconesses: Remembering to Re-Membering Tree of Codes
Mary Nyangweso, East Carolina University
Rites of Passage as the Loci of Public Health Discourse in Africa and
in the Diaspora A26-120
Leena Taneja, Zayed University Buddhism Unit
Beyond Brahminical Asceticism: An Ethnographic Study of Female Theme: Dharmic Aspirations, Poetic Conversations: Scenes of
Ascetics in the Chaitanya Vaishnava Tradition Ethical Instruction in Buddhist Literature
Responding: Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
K. Christine Pae, Denison University Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411B (Fourth Level)
Guttorm Gundersen, Harvard University, Presiding
A26-118 (=S26-136) CA Alexis Brown, Harvard University
The Place of Context in the Rasavāhinī: Dialogue as a Vehicle for
Comparative Approaches to Religion and Violence Unit and Transportation and a Site of Transformation
SBL Violence and Representations of Violence in Antiquity Julie Regan, La Salle University
Unit Erotic Scenes of Ethical Instruction in $ğYDJKRΙDµV Saundarananda
Theme: Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences Elizabeth Angowski, Earlham College
in Late Ancient Christianity (Oxford University Press, 2019): A Representing Renunciation and Creating a Scene: The Suitor
Cross-Disciplinary Engagement Dialogues in the Life of Yeshé Tsogyal
Tuesday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM Alan Wagner, Collège de France
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire E (Fourth Level) Missing Persons: The Loss of Meaning in Édouard Chavannes’
Christine Luckritz Marquis, Duke University, Presiding Translations of Chinese Jātakas
Panelists: Responding:
Nyasha Junior, Temple University Maria Heim, Amherst College
Laura Nasrallah, Harvard University
Constance Furey, Indiana University A26-121
Whitny Braun, Loma Linda University
Christian Systematic Theology Unit
Chase L. Way, Claremont Graduate University
Theme: Trauma, Disability, and Grace
Responding:
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Ellen Muehlberger, University of Michigan
Business Meeting:
Jessica Wong, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
Diane Fruchtman, Rutgers University, Presiding
Hannah Jones, University of Chicago
God, Trauma, and the Grace of Survival
Calli Micale, Yale University
Touch, Disability, and the Communication of Christ’s Spirit
Charles Guth, Princeton Theological Seminary
Binding Grace: On Covenants, Norms, and Conditions
Lloyd Barba, Amherst College, and Tatyana Castillo-Ramos,
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 Amherst College
La Migra No Profana El Santuario: Latinx Sanctuary Movement
Leaders in the Age of Trump
A26-122 Laura Worden, Yale University
Transnational Sanctity: The Destruction of Sacred Spaces for Santa
Contemporary Islam Unit Muerte in the Mexican Borderlands
Theme: Gender Politics in Contemporary Muslim Discourse Responding:
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Matthew Peter Casey, Arizona State University
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Iman AbdoulKarim, New York, NY A26-125
Intersectional Critique: Strategies for Supporting Muslim Women’s Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit and
Feminisms through Black Feminist Theory
Sacred Texts, Theory and Theological Construction Unit
Nicole Correri, Boston University Theme: Sacred and Scarred Texts in Global Lutheran Traditions:
Speaking for Zaynab: The Male Appropriation of the Female Voice in Ecology, Economy, and the Political
Contemporary Shī’ī Religious Ritual
Samuel Kigar, Duke University
God’s Feminine Shadow: A Feminist Muslim Political Theology of
Territory Allen G. Jorgenson, Wilfrid Laurier University, Presiding
Responding: Lisa E. Dahill, California Lutheran University
One Reality: Bonhoeffer, Non-Dualism, and Wild Life on Earth
Amanullah De Sondy, University College Cork
Tapio Leinonen, University of Helsinki
God’s Word Leads to Justice? Luther on Just Leadership in Lectures on
A26-123 W Deuteronomy
Benjamin Taylor, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago
Ethics Unit Faith in God or in Mammon? Martin Luther’s Critique of the Idol
Theme: Images of the Public Scholars and Scholarship Arina Zaytseva, Rice University
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Martin Luther’s Theological and Political Legacy in the Theatrum
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 411A (Fourth Level) Diabolorum
Nichole Flores, University of Virginia, Presiding
Graedon Zorzi, George Fox University
Freedom and the Moral Character of Modern Liberalism
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Shannon Dunn, Gonzaga University North American Religions Unit and Religion, Media, and
Precarious Personhood, the Refugee Crisis, and Ethical Responsibility Culture Unit
Joyce Konigsburg, Notre Dame of Maryland University Theme: Infrastructuring Religion in the United States: Canals,
Social Media as Public Spaces: #MeToo and the Ethics of Recognition Rails, Roads, and Pipelines
A26-124 Pamela Klassen, University of Toronto, Presiding
Latina/o Religion, Culture, and Society Unit and Religions S. Brent Plate, Hamilton College
in the Latina/o Americas Unit The Erie Canal and the Birth of US Religions
Theme: Caretaking and Destruction of Sacred Space Nicole Kirk, Meadville Lombard Theological School
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM “But, Hark! …the Whistle of a Locomotive...”
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level) Isaiah Ellis, University of North Carolina
Elaine Peña, George Washington University, Presiding The Southern Gospel of Good Roads
Josefrayn Sanchez-Perry, University of Texas Responding:
Remembering the Teopixque: Caretaking the Sacred Spaces of the David Walker, University of California, Santa Barbara
Nahua World
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A26-127 The Struggle of Caring for Creation beyond the Emphasis on
Individual Behavior
Philosophy of Religion Unit
Theme: The Rites of Race
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM A26-130 #rpc
Convention Center-26B (Upper Level East) Religion and Popular Culture Unit
Danube Johnson, Harvard University, Presiding Theme: The End of the World as We Know It: Apocalyptic Themes
Denson Staples, Harvard University in Black Metal, Reggae, and Punk Music
Notes On Divine Covenant and (In)Difference: Mixed Race, Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Whiteness, and Misrecognition
Mac Loftin, Harvard University James Thrall, Knox College, Presiding
Corpse Mysticum: White Supremacy, Fascism, and the Eucharist in
Georges Bataille’s Summa Atheologica Douglas Mattsson, Södertörn University
Black Metal in Turkey: Islamic Semiotics and Subcultural Resistance
Hannah Gais, Harvard Divinity School
White Nationalism Meets Eastern Orthodoxy: The Alt-Right and Ennis B. Edmonds, Kenyon College
Orthodox Neo-Traditionalism “It’s the Fire”: The Apocalypse According to Bob Marley
Thomas Lynch, University of Chichester Andrew McKee, Florida State University
Evaluating Religion: From Critical Religion to Feminist Violence and Elimination According to the Word of Jesus Christ Allin
Epistemology
A26-131
A26-128 Religion and Sexuality Unit
Psychology, Culture, and Religion Unit Theme: Reproductive Justice: Expanding the Discourse
Theme: Psychological Interiority of Resistance Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Indigo 202A (Second Level)
Convention Center-28A (Upper Level East) Erica Ramirez, Auburn Seminary, Presiding
Stephanie M. Crumpton, McCormick Theological Seminary, Panelists:
Presiding Michal Raucher, Rutgers University
Lisa M. Cataldo, Fordham University Elaina Ramsey, Ohio Religious Coalition for Reproductive
We Are Them: Scholarly and Spiritual Struggles of a Professor in a Justice, Columbus, OH
Catholic University in the Age of Crisis
Charity Woods, Interfaith Voices for Reproductive Justice,
Lily Mendoza, Oakland University Atlanta, GA
From Institutional Trauma to “Indigenous” Transformation: A
Filipina Journey of Decolonization Toni Bond Leonard, Claremont School of Theology
Chelsea Yarborough, Advocates for Youth, Washington, DC
Beth Toler, Moravian Theological Seminary
Queer Encounters: Pedagogical Considerations for Engaging, Rebecca Todd Peters, Elon University
Enduring, and Transforming Prejudicial Narratives in the Classroom
Daniel Moceri, Graduate Theological Union
Canon Fodder: Oppressive Systems, Institutional Lip Service, and The A26-132
Psychological Toll of Scholarship from the Margins Religion and the Social Sciences Unit
Theme: Studying Religion in Hard-to-Define Populations and
A26-129 #aareco2019 HW Places
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Religion and Ecology Unit Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 314 (Third Level)
Theme: Religion and Ecology in Public Spaces Nichole Phillips, Emory University, Presiding
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Laura Yares, Michigan State University
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 303 (Third Level) A Temple of Secular Culture? Researching Jewish Young Adults at the
Barbara Jane Davy, University of Waterloo, Presiding National Museum of American Jewish History
Andrew Thompson, University of the South Tyler Fuller, Boston University, Danielle Lambert, Emory
Environmental Theology as Public Theology: A Pragmatic Pluralist University, and Gina Wingood, Columbia University
Proposal The Good HIV and the Bad HIV: African American Women’s
Construction of Religio-Social Identity in Relation to HIV
Luke Beck Kreider, University of Virginia
Armed Ecology: Religion, Race, and Environmental Imagination at
Malheur
Douglas S. Duckworth, Temple University
TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26 The dGe-mang Movement: rNying-ma and dGe-lugs Hybridity in
19th-Century Khams
Adam Pearcey, SOAS, University of London
A26-133 Uniting dGe-lugs and rNying-ma Views: The Ris-med Philosophy of
mDo-sngags Chos-kyi rgya-mtsho (1903–1957)
Roman Catholic Studies Unit
Responding:
Theme: Theology and the Queering of Catholicism
Anne C. Klein, Rice University
Michael Pasquier, Louisiana State University, Presiding A26-136
Kevin McCabe, Seton Hall University World Christianity Unit
Can Catholicism Be Queer? Reflections on the Hermeneutics of Nature
and Grace Theme: Lived Religion and Agency in World Christianity: From
the Field to a Library Exhibition
Jeanine Viau, University of Central Florida
(Not so) Heavenly Bodies: Troubling the Catholic Analogical
Imagination Convention Center-24C (Upper Level East)
Ludger Viefhues-Bailey, Le Moyne College Corey Williams, Leiden University, Presiding
Making Queers: Eucharistic Liturgical Theology and Capital’s Affect Darren Duerksen, Fresno Pacific University
Immersing Christian Baptism in Hindu Water: Recent Experiences of
Indian Khrist Bhaktas
A26-134 Emmanuel Nathan, Australian Catholic University
From Construct to Constructing: An Ethnographic Approach to the
Study of Judaism Unit and Theology and Religious Catholic Church’s Renewed Relationship with Judaism since Vatican II
Reflection Unit
Jennifer Aycock, Emory University
Theme: Non-Doctrinal Theology in Judaism Fragmentary Sources, Refracting Gazes: Teaching African
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM Christianity through a Library Collection
Molly Farneth, Haverford College, Presiding
Sam Shonkoff, Graduate Theological Union
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Embodied Theology in Modern Jewish Thought University of California, San Diego
Claire Sufrin, Northwestern University Theme: Public Religions in the Modern World (University of Chicago
Theology in a Different Genre: Jewish Religion and Literature in Press, 1994) by José Casanova
Post-Holocaust America Tuesday, 11:00 AM–1:00 PM
Mara Benjamin, Mt. Holyoke College Offsite - UCSD Atkinson Hall, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, CA
Materiality as a Source for Jewish Feminist Theology 92093
Ariel Mayse, Stanford University Richard Madsen, University of California, San Diego, Presiding
Beyond the Hall of Mirrors: Jewish Mysticism and Post-Dogmatic The Program for the Study of Religion and the Department of
Theology Sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and the
American Academy of Religion present a public lecture celebrating
the 25th anniversary of Public Religions in the Modern World (University
A26-135 of Chicago Press, 1994) by José Casanova.
Tibetan and Himalayan Religions Unit Dr. Richard Madsen will introduce Dr. José Casanova. Dr. Casanova’s
lecture will discuss Public Religions in the Modern World and religion in
Theme: A Geluk-Inclusive Non-Sectarian Movement the public sphere for the 30th anniversary celebration of the English
Tuesday, 10:30 AM–12:00 PM translation of J. Habermas’ The Structural Transformation of the Public
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300A (Third Level) Sphere (MIT Press, 1989).
Nancy Lin, University of California, Berkeley, Presiding Panelist:
Rachel Pang, Davidson College José Casanova, Georgetown University
Bridging the Nyingma-Geluk Divide in the Life and Works of
Shabkar Tsokdruk Rangdrol (1781–1851)
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Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education Drake University / Des Moines Area Religious Council
(NetVUE) Theme: Academic / Nonprofit Collaborations
Theme: Vocation, Teaching, and Religious Studies Friday, 8:00 AM–2:00 PM
Thursday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 500 (Fifth Level)
Hilton Bayfront-Cobalt 500 (Fifth Level) This workshop features academic/nonprofit interfaith collaboration
This gathering provides an opportunity for teachers and scholars in in general and the “interfaith youth leadership camp” that Drake
the field of religious studies to discuss the intersections of that field University and the Des Moines Area Religious Council have co-
with programs for vocational reflection and discernment. Although programmed for the last three years. Time will be devoted to learning
the language of vocation, calling, and purpose is increasingly present about the interfaith youth leadership camp, sharing other academic/
in undergraduate education, its significance has remained relatively nonprofit interfaith collaborations, reflecting on the opportunities
under-theorized in academic circles, including in religious studies and challenges of such collaborations, and developing plans for future
generally. In addition, the broadening of the conversation about growth. Supported by the Arthur Vining Davis Foundations, limited
interfaith and interreligious studies is having an effect on the work space is available. Please contact Tim Knepper (tim.knepper@drake.
being done on vocation (and vice versa). edu) for more information.
• Should the concepts of vocation and calling play a role in the
religious studies classroom?
• Can the concept of vocation, with its historically Christian
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roots, function in the increasingly multi-faith context of higher Accordance Bible Software Training Seminar
education?
• What pedagogical assumptions undergird attention to vocation
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Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education
(NetVUE) Reception
Theme: Vocation, Teaching, and Religious Studies
Participants in the NetVUE Gathering on “Vocation, Teaching,
and Religious Studies,” along with their guests, are invited to this
informal gathering to discuss the day’s conversation, to exchange ideas
about their own experiences, and to network with other teachers and
scholars in the field.
OTHER EVENTS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 M22-103

Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
M22-101 (NetVUE)
Theme: Vocation, Teaching, and Religious Studies
Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies Friday, 9:00 AM–12:30 PM
AAR-SBL Pre-Gathering
This gathering provides an opportunity for teachers and scholars in
Offsite - Mary Hollis Clark Conference Center San Diego Public the field of religious studies to discuss the intersections of that field
Library Central Branch 330 Park Blvd. with programs for vocational reflection and discernment. Although
Lutheran Women in Theological and Religious Studies (LWTRS) the language of vocation, calling, and purpose is increasingly present
gather annually for scholarship, worship, and friendship. Lutheran in undergraduate education, its significance has remained relatively
women scholars, including graduate students, women who teach under-theorized in academic circles, including in religious studies
or study at Lutheran institutions, and rostered ELCA women are generally. In addition, the broadening of the conversation about
invited. Papers, worship, a business meeting, and meals comprise the interfaith and interreligious studies is having an effect on the work
day. This year marks the 40th ordination anniversary of Rev. Earlean being done on vocation (and vice versa). This gathering will address
Miller, the first African American Lutheran woman to be ordained in questions such as these:
the United States, ten years after the first white Lutheran woman was • Should the concepts of vocation and calling play a role in the
ordained. In honor of this anniversary, this year’s meeting will focus religious studies classroom?
on women “on the margins” through the lens of “Lament and Praise:
• Can the concept of vocation, with its historically Christian
Transformation Out of the Depths.” We will examine how women in
roots, function in the increasingly multi-faith context of higher
general have participated in lament and praise, including overlooked
education?
historical narratives, Lutheran theology of transformation out of the
depths, biblical witness to transformation, etc. Further, we will reflect • What pedagogical assumptions undergird attention to vocation
upon lament, praise, and transformation through the lens of women and calling in the teaching of religious studies?
of color both in and outside of the United States. Online registration • What teaching strategies have been used—successfully or
will be available after September 30. For more information, or to be otherwise—to incorporate vocation into undergraduate
notified when registration is open, contact Heather Dean at heather. coursework in religion?
dean@elca.org. This gathering will be of interest to those who teach undergraduate
courses in religious studies, theology, and related fields, including
those that focus on interreligious and interfaith studies.
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Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
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Theme: Transregional Bhakti Traditions
Friday, 9:00 AM–10:45 AM Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Theme: Hindu-Jewish Studies: Tantra and Kabbalah
Graham M. Schweig, Christopher Newport University and Graduate Friday, 11:00 AM–12:45 PM
Theological Union, Presiding Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Shivani Bothra, University of California-Santa Barbara Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado, Presiding
Terapanth Prabodha: A “Short-cut Method” to Develop Piety in the Pravina Rodrigues, Graduate Theological Union
Shvetambar Terapanth Tradition The Semiotics of Sefirot and Śrīcakra: A Reflection on Sacred Geometry
Rodney Sebastian, University of Florida Ithamar Theodor, Zefat Academic College
Transregional Transmission of *DXΕư\D 9DLΙΧDYLVP: Building the Modification, Emanation, and 3DULΧƘPD-Vāda in Medieval Theistic
Sacred Body in Manipuri 9DLΙΧDYD Dance Dramas Vedānta and Kabbalah
Brita Heimarck, Boston University Yudit K. Greenberg, Rollins College
Global Bhakti: A Complex Network of Devotional Music, Meditation, Shakti and Shekhinah: Reflections on Embodiments of the Divine
and Communitas Feminine
Pranati Parikh, Harvard University Alan Brill, Seton Hall University
Transregional Theologies of Grace for Comparative Theology Can Tantra Help Us Understand Kabbalistic Prayer Kavvanot?
Nalini Rao, Soka University
Guru Bhakti as Understood in the Dvaita Sampradāya
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Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium Member Eberhard Jüngel Research Colloquium
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Council Meeting (Private) Friday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM
Friday, 11:00 AM–4:00 PM Marriott Marquis-Cardiff (South Tower - Third Level)
Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 3 (Lobby Level) Piotr Malysz, Samford University, and R. David Nelson, Baker
Academic and Brazos Press, Presiding
The session — the last in a series — is devoted to engagement with
M22-111 the legacy of the German theologian Eberhard Jüngel (b. 1934). Over
Oneworld Publications a long and distinguished career, Jüngel has grappled with such topics
as revelation, responsible talk about God, God’s triunity, Christology,
Theme: Communities of the Qur’an: Book Launch the nature of theological language, analogy, divine and human freedom,
Friday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM love, atheism, and theological approaches to the state. In all this, he has
followed, perceptively yet critically, in the footsteps not only of Martin
Luther, but also of Hegel, Bonhoeffer, Bultmann, Heidegger, and Barth.
The goal of this session is to assess Jüngel’s legacy against the broader
backdrop of contemporary theology and philosophy.
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Panelists:
Forum on Religion and Ecology, Yale University Annual Christoph Schwoebel, University of St. Andrews
Luncheon Christopher Holmes, University of Otago
Friday, 12:00 PM–2:00 PM Deborah Casewell, Liverpool Hope University
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M22-201
Institute for Biblical Research
Bukkyo Dendo Kyokai (BDK) America Theme: Institute for Biblical Research Board Meeting
Theme: Numata Chairs Coordinators Meeting Friday, 12:45 PM–3:15 PM
Friday, 12:00 PM–5:00 PM Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire 400A (Fourth Level)
Marriott Marquis-Catalina (South Tower - Fourth Level)
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M22-202
Review and Expositor Editorial Board Meeting
China Academic Consortium Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
Theme: Colloquium for CETF ( Chinese Evangelical Theological Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Fellowhship)
Omni-Gallery 3A (Gallery Building - across the street from the main M22-205
hotel entrance on L Street)
Society for Post-Supersessionist Theology
The Theme of the colloquium is “ Chinese Theological Voices in
Theme: Fulfillment and Supersessionism in the Theology of St.
Public Space”. The presentation in either Chinese or English will
Paul
be acceptable. The presentation limited to 30 minutes and allow 15
minutes for responses. Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM
The objective of the event is to encourage theological learning, by Marriott Marquis-Pacific 14 (First Level)
interaction, construction and advancement among theological workers David Rudolph, King’s University, Presiding
in North America committed to theological reflection in Chinese
The Society for Post-Supersessionist Theology exists in order to
context with global implications.
promote research and discussion that advances post-supersessionist
thought. The Society understands post-supersessionism as a family of
theological perspectives that affirms God’s irrevocable covenant with
the Jewish people as a central and coherent part of ecclesial teaching.
It seeks to overcome understandings of the New Covenant that entail
the abrogation or obsolescence of God’s covenant with the Jewish
people, of the Torah as a demarcator of Jewish communal identity, or
of the Jewish people themselves.
Panelists:
William S. Campbell, University of Wales
Douglas Campbell, Duke University
OTHER EVENTS
Joseph Prabhu, California State University, Los Angeles

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 Interbeing: Humanity in an Ecological Age
Judith Carlisle, Loyola Marymount University
Responding: Pockets of Place and the Right to Space: Transcendence through
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Paula Fredriksen, Boston University +DΛKD-Yoga and AI

Francis Watson, University of Durham Gopal Gupta, University of Evansville
Hindu Perspectives on Artificial Life and the Self
Michael Reading, Claremont School of Theology
M22-206 Jainism and the Technological Singularity Hypothesis: Defeating the
Wrath of AI through Cautious and Nonviolent Intent
Society of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
Theme: Religion and Race in The Time of Trump
Friday, 1:00 PM–4:00 PM M22-300
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 300 (Third Level) Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars
Theme: What is Anglican About Anglican Readings of Scripture?
M22-207 Friday, 3:00 PM–7:00 PM
Offsite - Offsite
Beyond “Religion versus Emancipation”: Gender and
Sexuality in Women’s Conversion to Christianity, Judaism All parts of the AABS Friday meeting will be held at St. Paul’s
Cathedral (Episcopal), 2728 Sixth Avenue, San Diego, CA 92103 (619-
and Islam in Western-European Contexts 298-7261), stpaulcathedral.org. (If you want to share a ride to St. Paul’s,
Theme: Expert Meeting “Contested Conversions: “Authentic” at AABS’s expense, please meet the Rev. Frank Hughes [fwhughes54@
Stories and Public Reflexes’ hotmail.com] by 4:45 PM at the corner of West Harbor Drive, the street
Friday, 1:00 PM–5:00 PM the Convention Center faces, and 1st Avenue.) All are welcome to join
us — for any portion/s of the afternoon/evening. Advance reservations
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua C (Third Level) are required for the catered dinner. Information and cost for the dinner
will be posted on the AABS website (aabs.org) in the early fall; this
information will also be sent out on our email list. Contact Elizabeth
M22-208 Struthers Malbon (malbon@vt.edu) in the meantime if you have
questions or to be added to the email list. Please also note the AABS
Association for Interreligious and Interfaith Studies Annual celebration of Holy Eucharist on Sunday at 11:45 AM; check the SBL
Workshop online program or program book for the room.
Friday, 2:00 PM–5:00 PM 3:00 PM Executive Committee Meeting
Convention Center-25C (Upper Level East) Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest, Presiding
Join us for the 3rd annual meeting of the Association for Interreligious/ 5:00 PM Gathering and Greeting
Interfaith Studies (AIIS). Come hear about San Diego’s interfaith 5:30 PM General Business Meeting
context followed by peer-to-peer conversations with fellow scholars
about developing research, curricula, and scholarship that is both Jane Lancaster Patterson, Seminary of the Southwest, Presiding
inspired by and accountable to communities. A coffee break and 6:00 PM Holy Eucharist
refreshments will be provided. For more information and to register 7:00 PM Dinner
click here: cvent.com/events/association-of-interreligious-interfaith-studies-
workshop/event-summary-dc0b0f4afdeb4ce0850665a6bda75908.aspx If 7:45 PM What is Anglican about Anglican Readings of Scripture?
you have questions please contact Russ Arnold rarnold@regis.edu. Elizabeth Struthers Malbon, Virginia Tech, Presiding
Panelists:
Neil Elliott, Fortress Press
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Linda M. Maloney, Liturgical Press
Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Theme: Dharma and Artificial Intelligence
M22-301
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level) Association of Theological Schools
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union, Presiding Theme: Celebration of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology
Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado Program
Artificial Intelligence and Indian Tantra Friday, 3:00 PM–9:00 PM
Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College Convention Center-9 (Upper Level West)
On Jīva-s, Artificial Life Forms, and Inanimate Objects: Commander
Data, Marie Kondo, and the Dharma Traditions
Stuart R. Sarbacker, Oregon State University
Minds and the Philosophy and Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
M22-302 M22-305
Art/s of Interpretation Group Quaker Theological Discussion Group
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Theme: Science, Symbol, and Society: Epistemological Theme: Quaker Youth Ministry and Theopraxis in a Multicultural
Reassessments Session One: The Situation Context
Convention Center-23C (Upper Level East) Hilton Bayfront-206 (Second Level)
Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge,
Presiding
We will explore different and alternate ways various cultures have
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construed the acquisition of knowledge and its relationship to the Society for the Study of Native American Sacred Traditions
created order--different and alternative to the familiar paradigms we Annual Meeting
have inherited from the binary of the Enlightenment Science and
Religion. This particular session will be devoted to a discussion of the Friday, 4:30 PM–6:30 PM
new situation in the sciences as they relate to alternate interpretations Hilton Bayfront-Indigo C (Second Level)
of matter.
Jess Hollenback, University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse
Implications for the New Physics for a Humane Ordering of the World M22-400
Sherman Jackson, University of Southern California Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM)
Science and Religion: The View From The Islamic Secular
Theme: Subjectivity, Emotions, and Feelings
Charles H. Long, Chapel Hill, NC
The Importance of Fernand Braudel’s Tripartite Understanding of the Friday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Temporal Order for Making Sense of Matter Hilton Bayfront-Aqua F (Third Level)
Aaron Grizzell, Graduate Theological Union Loriliai Biernacki, University of Colorado, Presiding
The New Animism Ana Bajzelj, University of California, Riverside
Tatsuo Murakami, Sophia University Passions and Intention in Jainism
The Matter of the Fetish Brian Black, Lancaster University
Emotions and Ethics in the Mahābhārata
James Madaio, Czech Academy of Sciences
M22-303 A Hermeneutics of Happiness in Medieval Advaita Vedānta
Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network Agnieszka Rostalska, Ghent University
Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Epistemic Faults and Signs of Understanding: An Account of
Emotions in Early Nyāya
Jon Paul Sydnor, Emmanuel College, Boston
Mary E. Hunt, Women’s Alliance for Theology, Ethics, and Ritual, Rāmānuja’s Celebratory Panentheism: The Case for a Nondual
Presiding Theological Epistemology
Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, Harvard University, Presiding
The Feminist Liberation Theologians’ Network will bring feminist
theological insights to bear on the urgent impact of climate change M22-401
around the world. What is the role of religion in these human-made
problems, and how can feminist resources be put to best use for Stone-Campbell Journal
solutions? Theme: A Conversation About the Authority of Scripture
Panelists: Friday, 5:00 PM–6:30 PM
Anne Elvey, Monash University Convention Center-25B (Upper Level East)
Wanda Deifelt, Luther College David Matson, Hope International University, Presiding
All are welcome. SCJ invites friends and colleagues from all streams who identify
RSVP: water@hers.com with the Stone-Campbell Movement tradition for fellowship, light
refreshments, and interesting conversation. For additional information
contact William Baker (scjeditor@aol.com).
Joseph Gordon, Johnson University
Divine Scripture in Human Understanding: A Systematic Theology of
the Christian Bible (University of Notre Dame Press, 2019)
Mark Hamilton, Abilene Christian University
A Theological Introduction to the Old Testament (Oxford University
Press, 2018)
OTHER EVENTS
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22 M22-502

International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
M22-403 Reception
7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Mennonite Scholars and Friends at the AAR/SBL Forum Offsite - Offsite
Theme: Migration, Borders, and Belonging
Hilton Bayfront-Indigo D (Second Level) M22-503
Melanie Howard, Fresno Pacific University, Presiding Institute for Biblical Research
Jennifer Graber, University of Texas Theme: Annual IBR Reception Sponsored by InterVarsity Press
Missionary Encounters with Native Christian Epistemologies Friday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
Felipe Hinojosa, Texas A&M University Convention Center-20BC (Upper Level East)
Borderlands in the Mennonite Imagination
The Annual Reception, following the IBR Annual Lecture, is
Joseph Wiebe, University of Alberta, Augustana generously sponsored by InterVarsity Press
Race, Religion, and Land in The Gods of Indian Country
Hyejung Jessie Yum, University of Toronto
A Postcolonial Response to Felipe Hinojosa’s Latino Mennonites M22-504
The Word Made Fresh
M22-514 Theme: Toward a Post-White-Evangelical Politics
Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire A (Fourth Level)
Theme: Celebrating Robert Jones’s The End of White Christian
America Karen Strand Winslow, Azusa Pacific University, Presiding
Friday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM In 2001, a declaration entitled “The Word Made Fresh: A Call for
a Renewal of the Evangelical Spirit” was promulgated to encourage
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 305 (Third Level) an “irenic spirit of generous orthodoxy” within Christian theological
Panelists: discourse. This annual lecture series was then established in order to
Jenna Reinbold, Colgate University facilitate crea-tive dialogue among Christian scholars from diverse
backgrounds about pressing issues in con-temporary theology. The
Obery M. Hendricks, Columbia University Word Made Fresh lectureship is co-sponsored by Azusa Pacific
John D. Carlson, Arizona State University University and Point Loma Nazarene University.
Responding: Panelist:
Robert P. Jones, Public Religion Research Institute David P. Gushee, Mercer University
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Institute for Biblical Research Quaker Theological Discussion Group
Theme: Institute for Biblical Research Annual Lecture Theme: Quakers Reading Scripture
7:00 PM–9:00 PM Friday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Convention Center-20D (Upper Level East) Marriott Marquis-Oceanside (South Tower - First Level)
Lynn H. Cohick, Denver Seminary, Welcome (10 min)
Carmen Imes, Prairie College, Scripture Reading and Prayer (10 min)
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Lissa Wray Beal, Providence Theological Seminary, Introduction
(5 min) Yale University Press
Craig A. Evans, Houston Baptist University Theme: “That All Shall Be Saved”: A Reading by David Bentley
“When Abiathar Was High Priest”: Is the Reading in Mark 2:26 an Hart
Error? Observations on Pre-text Textual Criticism (40 min)
Elizabeth Shively, University of St. Andrews, Respondent (10 min) Marriott Marquis-Santa Rosa (South Tower - First Level)
KarlKutz, Multnomah University, Respondent (10 min)
Discussion (20 min)
Presentation by InterVarsity Press
The IBR Reception follows the Annual Lecture and is sponsored by
InterVarsity Press.
M22-508 P22-500
Evangelical Philosophical Society 12 Step Recovery Support Meeting
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 22
Theme: Love: Divine and Human Friday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
Friday, 7:00 PM–9:30 PM Hilton Bayfront-Aqua 310B (Third Level)
Love, Divine and Human: Contemporary Essays in Systematic and
Philosophical Theology is a collection of essays forthcoming from T&T M22-510
Clark. This book panel would give some of the volume’s authors an Perspectives in Religious Studies Editorial Board Meeting
opportunity to share their research with a larger audience.
Panelists:
Sameer Yadav (Westmont College) responds to the problem of divine
hiddenness by way of an analysis of divine love.
Kent Dunnington (Biola University) argues on exegetical and M22-512
philosophical grounds that there is not a Christian duty to love one’s
neighbor as oneself. Postcolonial Roundtable
J.T. Turner (Anderson College) argues against the notion that virtuous Theme: Book Discussion: Spirit Outside the Gate: Decolonial
character formation in love for God provides a causal link between Pneumatologies of the American Global South, by Oscar García-
libertarian free will in pre-heavenly existence and moral impeccabiliy Johnson (Downers Grove: IVP, 2019)
in the eschatological state. Friday, 8:00 PM–9:30 PM
Jordan Wessling (Fuller Seminary) argues for a unitary account of the Marriott Marquis-Presidio 2 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
relation between God’s love and God’s punitive wrath.
Victor Ezigbo, Bethel University, Presiding
Kevin Vanhoozer (TEDS) pushes against Oord’s conception of God’s
love by means of Aquinas’ denial of a real relation between God and This book challenges the “imperial logic of Babel” with the subversive
the cosmos. “logic of Pentecost” to challenge Western approaches to Latin
American and Latinx Christian spirituality. Building on the familiar
Panelists: missiological metaphor of “outside the gate” established by Orlando
Sameer Yadav, Westmont College Costas, García-Johnson moves to recover important elements in
Kent Dunnington, Biola University ancestral traditions of the Americas, with an eye to discerning
pneumatological continuity between the pre-Colombian and post-
James Turner, Anderson University (South Carolina)
Colombian communities.
Jordan Wessling, Fuller Theological Seminary
Panelists:
Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
Néstor Medina, University of Toronto
Peter Heltzel, New York Theological Seminary
M22-506 Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Semiary
Religious Studies Review (RSR) Annual Editorial Meeting Responding:
Oscar Garcia-Johnson, Fuller Theological Seminary
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M22-509 Mennonite Scholars and Friends at the AAR/SBL
Reception
Black Religious Scholars Group
Theme: 22nd Annual Consultation: Making It Plain
Offsite
Barbara Holmes, retired, Presiding M22-513
The registration fee is $25 and includes round trip transportation to Friends of Animals and Religion Reception
event. You may sign up at divinity.vanderbilt.edu/programs_BRSG_
Consultation.php. Friday, 9:00 PM–10:00 PM
For further information please contact Sha’Tika Brown, call (615) Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
936-8453 or email shatika.brown@vanderbilt.edu
Panelist:
Forrest E. Harris, Vanderbilt University/American Baptist
College
OTHER EVENTS
Responding:
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 Vineet Chander, Princeton University
Lucinda Mosher, Hartford Seminary
Rita Sherma, Graduate Theological Union
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Loyola Marymount University Huffington Ecumenical
Institute M23-104
Theme: Orthodox — Latter-day Saint Academic Conversation National Association of Baptist Professors of Religion
Saturday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM November Meeting
Omni-Gallery 3A (Gallery Building - across the street from the main Saturday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
hotel entrance on L Street) Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 3 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Orthodox — Latter-day Saint Academic Conversation Interested Plenary address will be given by Dr. Charles Kimball.
Orthodox and Latter-day Saint scholars are encouraged to contact

hosts Cyril Hovorun (hovorun@gmail.com) or Grant Underwood
(gru2@byu.edu) prior to the meeting. M23-105
Booth University College Salvation Army Scholars and
M23-114a Friends Annual Meeting
Institute for Biblical Research Saturday, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM
Theme: IBR Breakfast for Women Scholars Marriott Marquis-Vista (South Tower - First Level)
Saturday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Andrew Eason, Booth University College, Presiding
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level) Dean Smith, Nazarene Theological College
Towards an Australian Salvation Army Theology
For further information contact Beth Stovell (BStovell@ambrose.
edu). RSVP required to attend. Helen Cameron, Regent’s Park College
Rhetoric and Reality: Doing Good and Seeking Justice - Reflections on
the Social Justice Work of the Salvation Army in the UK, 2010–2018
M23-100 James Read, The Salvation Army Ethics Centre and Booth
University College
General Board of Higher Education and Ministry New
Aimee Patterson, The Salvation Army Ethics Centre and Booth
Room Books Editorial Board Breakfast University College
Saturday, 7:00 AM–9:00 AM “What Does the Lord Require?”: Current Issues in Salvation Army
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua C (Third Level) Ethics
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Council on Graduate Studies in Religion Annual Meeting Lutheran Scholars of Religion
Saturday, 8:30 AM–12:00 PM Theme: Keeping It Real: Theology, Racial Justice and the Common
Good
Marriott Marquis-Cardiff (South Tower - Third Level)
M23-103 Christine Helmer, Northwestern University, and Amy Carr, Western
Illinois University, Presiding
Society for Hindu-Christian Studies and Dharma Academy
of North America (DANAM) Theologians working with the resources from the Lutheran tradition
address current questions of climatological, cultural, economic, and
Theme: Book Review Panel - Hindu Approaches to Spiritual Care: political urgency, with a particular focus on racial justice. Papers
Chaplaincy in Theory and Practice, Editors: Vineet Chander, explore theological, philosophical, ethical, and political concerns
Princeton University and New York University, and Lucinda in order to propose realist theological positions that envision and
Mosher, Hartford Seminary promote the common good in church and world.
Saturday, 9:00 AM–10:30 AM Leila Ortiz, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadlephia
Hilton Bayfront-Aqua E (Third Level) Holy Shit: Food and Fertilizer for Sacred Spaces and the Common
Asha Shipman, Yale University, Presiding Good
Panelists: Cecilia Nahnfeldt, Church of Sweden
Vocation and Encounter: Theology and Practice when Transgressing
Varun Khanna, University of Pennsylvania Borders — from a Nordic/European Perspective
Christopher Chapple, Loyola Marymount University
Elyssa Salinas, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawai’i, Manoa Care at the Site of the Dead: A Theology of Restoration
Kerry San Chirico, Villanova University
Craig L. Nessan, Wartburg Theological Seminary
Calling a Thing What It Is: Confronting the American Genocide of M23-108
Indigenous Peoples (Dedicated to the Legacy of the Rev. Dr. Gordon J.
Straw) Christian Scholarship Foundation Luncheon
Responding: Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Timothy J. Seals, St. Luke Lutheran Church Convention Center-6D (Upper Level West)
Kristine Suna-Koro, Xavier University
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M23-106 Wesley Works Editorial Board Annual Luncheon
Charles S. Peirce Society Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Theme: Author Meets Commentators: Robert Cummings Neville’s Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire Boardroom (Fourth Level)
Metaphysics of Goodness
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Michael Raposa, Lehigh University, Presiding Zondervan
Panelists: Theme: Instructor Lunch with N.T. Wright and Michael F. Bird
Nathaniel Barrett, Universidad de Navarra Saturday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Lisa Landoe Hedrick, University of Chicago Convention Center-6A (Upper Level West)
Robert Smid, Curry College Join us for a complimentary lunch with professors Wright and Bird
Tyler Tritten, Gonzaga University as they discuss their new textbook The New Testament in Its World
(SPCK/Zondervan Academic, 2019). This event is only open to
Responding: instructors regularly teaching New Testament survey/introduction or
Robert C. Neville, Boston University administrators overseeing textbook selection. All attendees will receive
a free copy of the book. Space is limited. RSVP at ZondervanAcademic.
com/SBLlunch.
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Dharma Academy of North America (DANAM) P23-200
Theme: Mahatma Gandhi
12 Step Recovery Support Meeting
Veena Howard, California State University, Fresno, Presiding
Sungjin Im, Duke University
(Un)dressing the Mahatma: The Visual Presence of Gandhi in M23-112
Colonial Korea, 1921–1933
Samani Pratibha Pragya, SOAS University of London Oneworld Publications
$KLτVƘ Yātrā: Gandhi, Jainism, and a Socio-religious Initiative Theme: Slavery and Islam, Jonathan Brown, Book Launch
Pankaj Jain, University of North Texas Saturday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Gandhi, Jainism, and the Making of Indic Environmental Ethics in Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 2 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
the Late Nineteenth Century
Gopinathan Pillai, Santhigiri Research Foundation
Global Nonviolent Awakening and Sustainable Future M23-200
Responding: Marginalia Review of Books
Ramdas Lamb, University of Hawai’i, Manoa Theme: The Future of Philosophy of Religion
Veena Howard, California State University, Fresno Saturday, 12:00 PM–1:30 PM
Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 11 (Lobby Level)
OTHER EVENTS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 M23-302

Cambridge University Press
M23-202 Theme: Biblical Theology by Ben Witherington Book Launch
Art/s of Interpretation Group
Theme: Science, Symbol, and Society: Epistemological
Reassessments Session Two: Theoretical, Paradigmatic, and
Practical Implications
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Marriott Marquis-Pacific 14 (First Level) Theology Without Walls Group
Randal Cummings, California State University, Northridge, Theme: Rising Scholars Discussion
Presiding Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM

We will explore different and alternate ways various cultures have Marriott Marquis-Catalina (South Tower - Fourth Level)
construed the acquisition of knowledge and its relationship to the Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding
created order — different and alternative to the familiar paradigms
we have inherited from the binary of the Enlightenment Science and This will be a free-for-all discussion among emerging Theologians
Religion. This particular session will be devoted to discussion of issues Without Walls, following brief opening remarks by a senior
related to the theoretical and practical implications of a scientific scholar and a younger scholar. Obvious topics include: how to be a
worldview on the forms and structures of society. transreligious theologian and where one sees one’s own work on the
developing theological landscape.
Elana Jefferson-Tatum, Tufts University
Ce n’est pas Magique; C’est d’Apprendre!: Theorizing Vodun Panelists:
Orientational Traditions as Scientific Knowledge John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary
Philip P. Arnold, Syracuse University John Becker, Center for Process Studies, Claremont
Indigenous Societies: Technologies and the Land
Eglute Trinkauskaite, Maryland Institute College of Art
The Magic and Science of Lithuanian Healing Charms
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Thomas Csordas, University of California, San Diego Drake University / Des Moines Area Religious Council
Disciplines of the Sciences and Disciplines of the Spirit Theme: Interfaith Youth Leadership Camp
David Carrasco, Harvard University Saturday, 3:30 PM–5:00 PM
Cosmovision as an Epistemological Hermeneutic for an Ecological and
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire D (Fourth Level)
Social Meaning of Religion
Timothy D. Knepper, Drake University, Presiding
This session features the Interfaith Youth Leadership Camp that is
M23-203 annually cohosted by Drake University (The Comparison Project) and
the Des Moines Area Religious Council. Student campers/counsellors
Institute for Biblical Research and academic/nonprofit staff will introduce the camp, speak about
Theme: Institute for Biblical Research Board Meeting their experiences in participating, and reflect on its opportunities and
challenges over the last three years. A documentary created at this
Saturday, 12:00 PM–3:00 PM year’s camp will also be screened.
Marriott Marquis-Point Loma (South Tower - First Floor)
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Zondervan Coffee Reception with N.T. Wright and Michael
Society for Pentecostal Studies F. Bird
Theme: Pneumatology in the Hebrew Scriptures Saturday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM
Saturday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM Convention Center-20BC (Upper Level East)
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Join us to celebrate the release of The New Testament in Its World
Alicia Jackson, Vanguard University, Presiding (SPCK/Zondervan Academic, 2019). A brief program will include a
John Levison, Southern Methodist University conversation between Professors Wright and Bird about their book
Exodus and Spirit: The Israelite Origin of Pneumatology and reflections on what we must change in how we teach the New
Testament. For more info, visit ZondervanAcademic.com/coffee.
Jacqueline Grey, Alphacrucis College, Australia
Panelists:
Is Hannah Among the Prophets? A Pentecostal Perspective
N.T. Wright, University of Saint Andrews
Michael Brown, FIRE School of Ministry
The Book of Job as a Challenge to Charismatic Orthodoxy Michael F. Bird, Ridley College
How can scholars of religion and policymakers better engage with
M23-400 and learn from one another? The panelists will offer rich insights
from their decades of experience working in both academia and
Green Seminary Initiative and CreatureKind government on issues of religion, policy, and foreign affairs.
Theme: Networking Event: Animals, the Environment, and Panelists:
Theological Education Shaun Casey, Georgetown University
Saturday, 5:00 PM–6:00 PM Susan Hayward, Georgetown University, United States Institute
Marriott Marquis-Malibu (South Tower - Fourth Level) of Peace, Washington, D.C.
Join CreatureKind and Green Seminary Initiative to meet other Peter Mandaville, Georgetown University, George Mason
scholars working in the areas of animals, environment, and theological University, and Brookings Institution
education and learn about how institutions are adopting institutional Benjamin Marcus, Religious Freedom Center, Washington, DC
policies at the intersection of faith and action.
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John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics Reception
Theology Without Walls Group Planning Meeting
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire Terrace (Fourth Level)
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding
A discussion of panel topics, journal topics, and other issues M23-405
pertaining to the future of Theology Without Walls. One focus will be
the new Routledge volume edited by Martin, Theology Without Walls: Forum for Theological Exploration Reception Honoring
The Transreligious Imperative. Fellows and Alumni
John Thatamanil, Union Theological Seminary Saturday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
Publications Convention Center-6B (Upper Level West)
Jeanine Diller, University of Toledo
Models of God
Kurt Anders Richardson, University of Toronto M23-406
Global Trends Australian Catholic University 2019 Reception
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University, Presiding Offsite - Stone Brewing Tap Room, 795 J Street
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Macquarie University and Australian College of Theology Unitarian Universalist Scholars and Friends
Down Under Reception Theme: Post-Denominationalism and Its Implications for
Saturday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM Unitarian Universalism: A Conversation in Honor of Lee Barker
Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Saturday, 6:30 PM–9:30 PM
Marriott Marquis-Dana Point (South Tower - Fourth Level)
M23-403 Elias Ortega-Aponte, Meadville Lombard Theological School,
Presiding
U.S. Institute of Peace and the Berkley Center for Religion, Please join us as we celebrate the legacy of Lee Barker on the
Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University occasion of his retirement from the presidency of Meadville
Theme: Survival Tips for Religion Scholars in DC Lombard Theological School. Between 2003 and 2019, Lee led the
transformation and renewal of Meadville Lombard as it moved
Saturday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM from Hyde Park to downtown Chicago and embraced an innovative,
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) contextual program of ministerial formation that infuses practical
Despite increased recognition that religion matters in international experience in parish and community settings with academic
affairs and domestic policy, there remain gaps between religious coursework. Lee also grappled with the changing landscape of
studies theory, policy, and practice. Academics can offer religion in the United States, as denominational loyalties weakened
recommendations from groundbreaking research to inform policy. At and individuals and families chose a wide range of new forms of
the same time, policymakers can articulate and operationalize lessons religious participation. Our panel will explore the implications of this
and opportunities at this intersection in ways that are unique to their changing religious scene for Unitarian Universalist seminaries and
own experiences within government. congregations, for the people we serve, and for the transformative,
counter-oppressive work that we champion.
OTHER EVENTS
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 23 M23-504

Interfaith Youth Core Reception
Panelists include Michael Hogue (Meadville Lombard), Pamela
Lightsey (Meadville Lombard), and Tania Marquez (First Unitarian Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Universalist Church of San Diego), with a response by Lee Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 12 (Lobby Level)
Barker. Elias Ortega Aponte (Meadville Lombard) will moderate.
Cosponsored by the UUA Panel on Theological Education, Harvard
Divinity School, Meadville Lombard Theological School, and Starr M23-505
King School for the Ministry. The conversation will run 6:30-8:00 pm,
followed by a reception from 8:00 PM–9:30 PM. Plough Publishing
Panelists: Theme: Beyond Capitalism: Radical Traditions for a New
Michael Hogue, Meadville Lombard Theological School Economy
Pamela Lightsey, Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Tania Marquez, First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego Marriott Marquis-San Diego A (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Responding: What do Pentecostalism, religious socialism, and Anabaptism have in
Lee C. Barker, Meadville Lombard Theological School common?
On Saturday, November 23 at 7:00 PM, Plough Publishing will host
an event to explore the surprising commonalities of these traditions,
M23-500 and the resources they provide to reimagine society and economy.
This event, held in conjunction with the 2019 AAR and SBL
Friends of Brigham Young University Annual Meetings in San Diego, will launch the publication of three
Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM series with Plough Publishing House: The Classics of the Radical
Marriott Marquis-La Costa (South Tower - Fourth Level) Reformation (formerly with Herald Press), The Blumhardt Source
Series (formerly with Wipf and Stock), and the new Eberhard Arnold
Centennial Editions for both academic and general audiences.
M23-501 Join us as we explore the challenge of radical discipleship through
these important theological writings. A reception will follow the
Critical Research on Religion Reception keynote and panel.
Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM Panelists:
Offsite - Basic Bar and Pizza, 410 Tenth Ave. Stanley Hauerwas, Duke University
You are invited to a reception co-sponsored by Critical Research Juan Martinez, Fuller Theological Seminary
on Religion (crr.sagepub.com) and the AAR Sociology of Religion Malinda Elizabeth Berry, Anabaptist Mennonite Biblical Semiary
program unit. Nancy Bedford, Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
Erin DuFault Hunter, Fuller Theological Seminary
M23-502 Mark Lau Branson, Fuller Theological Seminary
Frank Macchia, Vanguard University
Indiana University Religious Studies Alumni and Friends
Reception
Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM M23-506
Marriott Marquis-Coronado (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Zen Reading Group Sixth Annual Meeting
M23-503 Marriott Marquis-Catalina (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Institute for Ancient Near Eastern and Afroasiatic Cultural Steven Heine, Florida International University, Presiding
Research (IAACR) Albert Welter, University of Arizona
Song-dynasty Chan Texts
Diane E. Riggs, Western Michigan University
Marriott Marquis-Cardiff (South Tower - Third Level) The Robe in Zen Texts
This year’s IAACR Colloquium will highlight selected personal
narratives of scholars in Biblical and Religious Studies, with particular Osvaldo Mercuri, International Research Institute of Zen
reference to those from populations traditionally underrepresented or Buddhism
minoritized within the academy. Proposals are invited for 15-minute Medieval Japanese Zen Texts
presentations to be shared at the event. This is part of a larger project Responding:
focused on hearing and honoring the autobiographical reflections of Morten Schlutter, University of Iowa
scholars in Afroasiatic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies.
For additional information, please contact Hugh Page, Jr. (poeto@
me.com).
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The Enoch Seminar Reception Graduate Theological Union Reception
Saturday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM Saturday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM
Marriott Marquis-Pacific Ballroom 15 (First Floor) Omni-Grand C (Fourth Level)
The Enoch Seminar is an international group of specialists of Second
Temple Judaism and Christianity, Rabbinic, and Islamic Origins. All
are invited to join us at this reception to learn about our recent and M23-509
future activities.
Fordham University Reception
M23-507 Marriott Marquis-Pacific 16 (First Level)
Religion and Science Hospitality Event Fordham University — especially the Theology Department,
Orthodox Christian Studies Center, Graduate School of Religion
Saturday, 7:00 PM–10:00 PM and Religious Education, and Fordham University Press — warmly
Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 13 (Lobby Level) welcomes alumni/ae, prospective and current students, faculty, and
All are invited to discuss and learn more about the many different colleagues to our annual reception.
intersections of religion and science at the Religion and Science
Hospitality Event! Representatives from the following organizations
will be on hand to answer questions, engage in dialogue, and discuss M23-510
possibilities for future work. We look forward to seeing you there!
Dallas Theological Seminary Alumni Reception
• The Dialogue on Science, Ethics, and Religion (DoSER) Program
of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Saturday, 8:00 PM–9:00 PM
(AAAS) Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 3 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
• The Zygon Center for Religion and Science
• Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science
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• The Institute for Religion in an Age of Science (IRAS)
• The Institute for the Bio-Cultural Study of Religion (IBCSR) of Baker Academic and Brazos Press Reception
the Center for Mind and Culture (CMAC) Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
• The International Society for Science and Religion (ISSR) Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 9 (Lobby Level)
• The Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS)
Program of the Graduate Theological Union (GTU)
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M23-508 Hispanic Theological Initiative Consortium and Reception
Evangelical Philosophical Society
Omni-Grand A (Fourth Level)
Theme: The Strength and Limits of Parental Rights
Marriott Marquis-Pacific 23 (First Level) M23-513
How robust should parental rights be, and what might an evangelical Nova Religio: The Journal of Alternative and Emergent
philosophy contribute to the question? While questions of marriage Religions Reception
and sexuality have been hotly disputed, the question of parental
rights has—until recently—remained on the edges of the American Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
consciousness. This panel discussion will consider the limits and Omni-Gaslamp 1 (Fourth Level)
weight of parental rights in a range of hotly disputed issues, such
as vaccines, transgender therapy and treatments, and declining
life-extending medical care. Moreover, this panel will consider the M23-514
relationship between religious liberty claims and parental rights in
each of these areas. Eerdmans (Wm. B.) Publishing Company Reception
Panelists: Saturday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Michael Austin, Eastern Kentucky University Convention Center-6A (Upper Level West)
Francis Beckwith, Baylor University
Gregory Bock, University of Texas, Tyler
Matthew Anderson, Baylor University
OTHER EVENTS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 M24-101

National Association of Professors of Hebrew
M23-515 Theme: Annual Breakfast and Business Meeting
Asbury Theological Seminary and Azusa Pacific University
Convention Center-6F (Upper Level West)
Reception
Marvin Sweeney, Claremont School of Theology, Presiding
Omni-Grand B (Fourth Level)
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M23-516 Temple University Breakfast
Center for Process Studies Reception
Marriott Marquis-Mission Hills (South Tower - Third Level)
Omni-Gaslamp 2 (Fourth Level)
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M23-517 Louisville Institute Research Breakfast
Harvard University Reception
Offsite - Petco Park, 100 Park Boulevard
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
For Harvard faculty, student, staff alumni, colleagues and friends. M24-103
Institute for Biblical Research
M23-518 Theme: Worship Service
Swiss Universities Reception
Marriott Marquis-Pacific Ballroom 19 (First Floor)
This worship service is sponsored by the Institute for Biblical
Convention Center-6D (Upper Level West) Research.
Lynn Cohick, Denver Seminary, Presiding
Worship
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Lesson from the Hebrew Scriptures
Lesson from the New Testament
M24-104 Sermon, Dennis Edwards, Northern Seminary, “Endings and New
Beginnings”
Church of Christ Professors Meeting
Convention Center-11B (Upper Level West) M24-110
Center of Theological Inquiry Breakfast Reception
M24-105 Sunday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM
Marriott Marquis-Balboa (South Tower - Third Level)
Dead Sea Scrolls Foundation Board of Directors Meeting
The Center of Theological Inquiry invites members, friends, and all
Sunday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM those interested in our program to its annual breakfast reception.
Hilton Bayfront-Sapphire Boardroom (Fourth Level) This event provides an opportunity to learn more about our research
program, including our Inquiry on Religion and Global Concerns,
focused on migration, religion and violence, economic inequality, and
M24-106 the environment.
Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Alumni Connect

Breakfast M24-114
Sunday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM Religion and American Law Discussion Group
Convention Center-7A (Upper Level West) Theme: Issues in Religion and American Law
Marriott Marquis-Miramar (South Tower - Third Level)
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International Qur’anic Studies Association (IQSA) Institute for Biblical Research
Theme: Business Meeting Research Group: Scripture and Church Seminar
Sunday, 11:00 AM–11:45 AM Theme: “Communicating the Kingdom”
Convention Center-23B (Upper Level East) Sunday, 1:00 PM–3:30 PM
Marriott Marquis-Pacific Ballroom 17 (First Floor)
Our papers this year will address:
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i. Hearing the Gospel of the Kingdom: What does the gospel of the
Biblical Interpretation Editorial Board Meeting Kingdom have to say to the twenty-first century church? At what
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM points do Jesus’s kingdom parables, discourses and signs offer
encouragement and sustenance to a struggling post-Christendom
Marriott Marquis-Del Mar (South Tower - Third Level) church? At what points do they disrupt and destabilise the order that
we have constructed or inherited?
ii. Proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom: How are we to convey
M24-116 the meaning of Jesus’s Kingdom proclamation and its present
Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Pines implications, within a contemporary context in which notions of
kingdom and kingship are alien to the experience of many, and there
School of Graduate Studies Luncheon is deep and widespread suspicion of authority claims and totalizing
Sunday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM narratives?
Convention Center-7B (Upper Level West) iii. Dramatizing the Gospel of the Kingdom: How should the liberating
incursion of the Kingdom of God be demonstrated and dramatized
in the conduct of contemporary Christians and in the shape of
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
M24-201 our churches and the various other institutions that we create and
maintain?
Anglican Association of Biblical Scholars For more information, contact Dr. Bill DeJong, chair (billdejo@
Theme: Holy Eucharist gmail.com) or visit the Tyndale House Scripture Collective website
Sunday, 11:45 AM–12:45 PM (academic.tyndalehouse.com/thsc), or the IBR website under the
Research Groups tab (ibr-bbr.org/).
Bill DeJong, Blessings Christian Church, Welcome (5 min)
All are welcome to attend this celebration of the Holy Eucharist in
the Anglican Tradition. Opening Liturgy
Other (5 min)
Jeannine Brown, Bethel Seminary (St. Paul, MN)
M24-118 Hearing the Gospel of the Kingdom (25 min)
Society for Dialectical Theology Koert Van Bekkum, Theological University (Kampen, NL)
Proclaiming the Gospel of the Kingdom (25 min)
Theme: Dialectical Theology Beyond Dialectics
Sunday, 12:00 PM–1:00 PM David Starling, Morling College
Dramatizing the Gospel of the Kingdom (25 min)
Marriott Marquis-Santa Rosa (South Tower - First Level)
Break (10 min)
W. Travis McMaken, Lindenwood University, Presiding
Panel Discussion
With its commitment to divine nonobjectifiability, dialectical theology
positions itself as critical of every theological and sociopolitical Discussion (25 min)
status quo. How then might dialectical theology help us think both Q&A with Panelists
creatively and transgressively about borders and boundaries? Join us as Discussion (20 min)
we explore this question.
Closing Liturgy
Raymond Carr, Pepperdine University
Beyond Dialectics: Attending to the Surplus between the Borders and Other (5 min)
Boundaries Final Announcements
Other (5 min)
OTHER EVENTS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 M24-400

Tutku Tours
M24-300 Theme: Graeco-Roman Medicine in Turkey: The Cases of
Pergamon, Allianoi and Rhodiapolis, by Sarah Yeomans
Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre Sunday, 5:00 PM–6:00 PM
Dame Marriott Marquis-Catalina (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Theme: Ninth Annual Analytic Theology Lecture
Marriott Marquis-Pacific 23 (First Level) M24-401
Thomas McCall, Trinity International University Center and Library for the Bible and Social Justice (CLBSJ)
Analytic Theology and the Ministry of Reconciliation Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
M24-301 A roundtable discussion on the topic, “Maintaining Dialogue
Between the Seminary, the Sanctuary, and the Streets.” This facilitated
Tutku Tours conversation will focus on the importance today of identifying and
Theme: “Eutychus” Great Falls in Acts 20 and Multistoried Insulae nurturing alternative spaces for meaningful conversation and debate
in Troas by Dr. Mark Wilson about the Bible as touchstone in identity formation, politics, and
initiatives aimed at the promotion of social justice. All with an interest
Sunday, 4:00 PM–5:00 PM in this topic are invited to attend. For additional information, please
Marriott Marquis-Catalina (South Tower - Fourth Level) contact Ched Myers (chedmyers@bcm-net.org) or Hugh Page, Jr.
(hpage@nd.edu).
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
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Society for Pentecostal Studies
Theme: A Round Table Discussion of Sandra Richter’s Stewards Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education
of Eden: What Scripture Says About Environmentalism and Why It (NetVUE) Reception for Members and Friends
Matters (IVP, 2019) Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
Sunday, 4:00 PM–6:30 PM Marriott Marquis-La Costa (South Tower - Fourth Level)
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 3 (North Tower - Lobby Level) The Network for Vocation in Undergraduate Education (NetVUE)
Blaine Charette, Northwest University, Presiding is a nationwide campus-supported network to support educators in
Panelists: their work with undergraduate students as they explore questions of
meaning, purpose, and identity and discern their many callings in
Rickie Moore, Lee University life. Since its launch in 2009, NetVUE has grown rapidly to include
Jonathan Bentall, Durham University over 250 independent colleges and universities. All SBL and AAR
Kimberly Alexander, Regent University participants are invited to join us for this reception, whether or not
their institutions are members of the network.
Andrew Davies, University of Birmingham
Stop by for a chance to learn more about NetVUE (including faculty
Responding: development and grant opportunities), to connect with friends and
Sandra Richter, Harvard University colleagues with similar interests, and to enjoy one another’s company.
NetVUE is administered by the Council of Independent Colleges
(CIC) with generous supported from Lilly Endowment Inc. and
M24-302 member dues.
Center for Philosophy of Religion at the University of Notre

Dame Analytic Theology Reception M24-403
Sunday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM Paulist Press Author and Friends Reception
Marriott Marquis-Pacific 18 (First Level) Sunday, 6:00 PM–7:30 PM
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Journal of Religious Ethics Editorial Board Meeting M24-404
Sunday, 4:30 PM–6:00 PM Louisville Institute Reception
Marriott Marquis-Santa Rosa (South Tower - First Level) Sunday, 6:00 PM–8:00 PM
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Christian Century University of Denver/Iliff School of Theology Reception
Theme: Religion in the Golden Age of Television Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Sunday, 6:30 PM–8:00 PM Omni-Grand C (Fourth Level)
Offsite - St. Paul’s Cathedral, 2728 6th Ave.
A conversation with theologian Kathryn Reklis, media critic of the
Christian Century.
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Panelist: University of Oxford and University of Cambridge
Kathryn Reklis, Fordham University Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Marriott Marquis-Marina F (South Tower - Third Level)
M24-534 The Universities of Cambridge and Oxford are delighted to invite
colleagues, friends, alumni and prospective graduate students to a
Journal for Queer and Transgender Studies in Religion reception at the AAR and SBL Annual Meetings in San Diego.
Come hear an update on developments in Cambridge’s Faculty of
Theme: Organizational Meeting for a New Journal on Queer and
Divinity and Oxford’s Faculty of Theology and Religion, and meet
Transgender Studies in Religion
current faculty members. Prospective students are warmly welcome
Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM to come and learn about the benefits of studying in Cambridge or
Marriott Marquis-Miramar (South Tower - Third Level) Oxford. Further information is available at divinity.cam.ac.uk and
theology.ox.ac.uk.
Melissa M. Wilcox, University of California, Riverside, Presiding
Scholars working or interested in the areas of queer and transgender
studies in religion are invited to an informal discussion of the possibility M24-504
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
of starting a journal to serve this subfield. If you cannot come but would
like to share your ideas, please email melissa.wilcox@ucr.edu. Yale University Reception
Panelists: Sunday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Kent Brintnall, University of North Carolina, Charlotte Marriott Marquis-Marina G (South Tower - Third Level)
Joseph A. Marchal, Ball State University
Max Strassfeld, University of Arizona
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Yannik Thiem, Columbia University
Heather White, University of Puget Sound Parasource Distribution Canadian Scholars and Friends
Thelathia Nikki Young, Bucknell University Reception
Marriott Marquis-Marina E (South Tower - Third Level)
M24-500 Join Parasource Canada and their partner publishers for an informal
Boston College Theology Department and School of reception reconnecting those doing work from Sea to Sea to Sea.
Theology and Ministry Reception Canadian scholars, students and friends welcome.
Omni-Grand A (Fourth Level) M24-506
Princeton Theological Seminary Reception
M24-501 Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM
Rice University Reception Marriott Marquis-Marina D (South Tower - Third Level)
Omni-Grand B (Fourth Level) M24-507
Please join us for the inaugural reception for Rice University students,
alumni, faculty, and friends.
Princeton University Department of Religion Reception
Marriott Marquis-San Diego C (North Tower - Lobby Level)
OTHER EVENTS
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 P24-500

M24-508 Sunday, 7:30 PM–8:30 PM
University of Iowa Reception for Alumni and Friends
Omni-Grand D (Fourth Level) M24-512
Jewish Theological Seminary Reception
M24-509 Sunday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
University of North Carolina Reception
Kekst Graduate School Reception: The JTS Kekst Graduate School
Sunday, 7:00 PM–9:00 PM invites alumni, students, faculty colleagues and their friends to a light
Omni-Grand E (Fourth Level) kosher reception. Jewish dietary laws will be observed. Come enjoy
this annual event with us!
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Claremont Graduate University Department of Religion
Reception University of Notre Dame Reception
Marriott Marquis-Pacific 22 (First Level) Marriott Marquis-Pacific 24 (First Level)
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
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Evangelical Philosophical Society Concordia Seminary, Concordia Theological Seminary, and
Theme: Modern Philosophy of Theological Anthropology Concordia Publishing House Reception
Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 2 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 3 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Joshua Farris, Houston Baptist University, and Nathan Jacobs,
University of Kentucky, Presiding M24-515
Modernity, some have suggested, sows the seeds for a purely
materialist, mechanistic, non-experiential, a-religious perspective of Brown University Reception
the world. However, new work on God and Modern philosophy in Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
philosophers such as Descartes, Hobbes, and Kant challenges this
assumption .Through the lens of some of the most important Modern Marriott Marquis-Pacific 16 (First Level)
figures, the present panel discussion explores the following question:
“Does contemporary philosophical materialism regarding humans
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not by considering Descartes, Hobbes, Berkeley, Kant.
Religion and American Culture Reception
Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College
Descartes and the Primacy of Self-awareness Sunday, 8:00 PM–10:00 PM
Richard J. Mouw, Fuller Theological Seminary Marriott Marquis-Pacific 15 (First Level)
Hobbes and Descartes in Christian Anthropology
Chris L. Firestone, Trinity International University M24-517
Kant’s Existential Dualism
Geoffrey Fulkerson, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Trinity Evangelical Divinity School Alumni and Friends
Heidegger, the Technological, and Dwelling: A Theological Account Dessert Reception
Marriott Marquis-Coronado (South Tower - Fourth Level)
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University of Texas, Austin Reception
Offsite - Blind Burro, 639 J St.
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Calvin Theological Seminary Reception Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary PhD Reception
Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level) Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 10 (Lobby Level)
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London School of Theology Reception Emory University Graduate Division of Religion (GDR)
Sunday, 9:00 PM–10:30 PM Reception
Marriott Marquis-La Costa (South Tower - Fourth Level) Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
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Brite Divinity School Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–10:30 PM Johns Hopkins University Near Eastern Studies Reception
Marriott Marquis-Marriott Grand 1 (Lobby Level) Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM
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Vanderbilt University Divinity School Reception
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24
Sunday, 9:00 PM–10:30 PM Southern Methodist University and Perkins School of
Marriott Marquis-San Diego A (North Tower - Lobby Level) Theology Alumni/ae and Friends Reception
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Boston University Department of Religion and School of
Theology Reception
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Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM Scottish Universities Reception
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Drew University Annual Alumni Gathering
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Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM Syracuse University Department of Religion Reception
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Duke University Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM University of Oslo Nordic Reception
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Florida State University Department of Religion Reception
Sunday, 9:00 PM–11:00 PM Fortress Press Reception
OTHER EVENTS
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25 M25-110

Theology Without Walls Group
M25-101 Theme: Theology Without Walls Versus Deep Religious
Commitment?
Friends of Regent College Breakfast Monday, 9:00 AM–11:30 AM
Monday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM Marriott Marquis-Torrey Pines 1 (North Tower - Lobby Level)
Convention Center-6F (Upper Level West) S. Mark Heim, Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School,
Presiding
Our religious lives have existential grip. We commit ourselves fully
M25-102 to them. That seems to be essential to their being transformative.
Restoration Quarterly Breakfast TWW seems to lack existential grip. It may even appear to be
incompatible with having religious commitments. It may appear to
Monday, 7:00 AM–8:30 AM require a tabula rasa and a “view from nowhere.” How can an intense
Convention Center-6C (Upper Level West) commitment to a single vision relate to a theological project that is
more encompassing?
Jeanine Diller, University of Toledo
M25-103 How to Theologize Globally and Affiliate Locally
Fuller Theological Seminary Alumni and Friends Breakfast Bin Song, Washington College
Wang Longxi’s “Seeded Open Inclusivism”: TWW with Deep
Monday, 7:00 AM–9:00 AM Commitment in Neo-Confucianism
Convention Center-7B (Upper Level West) Robert C. Neville, Boston University
Theology Without Walls and the Existential Depth of Religion
M25-104 Kurt Anders Richardson, University of Toronto
Mythologizing or De-Mythologizing in Theology: Transcending the
Union Presbyterian Seminary Alumni Breakfast Dichotomy
Monday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Linda A. Mercadante, Methodist Theological School in Ohio
A Theology for the Spiritual But Not Religious?
Marriott Marquis-Oceanside (South Tower - First Level)
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Institute for Biblical Research Society for Mormon Philosophy and Theology
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
Theme: IBR Ethnic Minority Breakfast Theme: Mormonism and Theology of Religions
Monday, 7:30 AM–8:45 AM Monday, 11:00 AM–12:30 PM
Convention Center-6D (Upper Level West) Marriott Marquis-Vista (South Tower - First Level)
IBR invites members and potential members of ethnic minority Panelists:
background (Latino, Asian, African, and/or Native American) to a Andrew Schwartz, Center for Process Studies, Claremont
breakfast for networking and brainstorming. For further information Brian D. Birch, Utah Valley University
contact Esau McCaulley (esaumccaulley@gmail.com). RSVP requested
but not required. James M. McLachlan, Western Carolina University
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Dead Sea Discoveries Editorial Board Meeting Journal for the Study of Judaism Editorial Board Meeting
Monday, 7:30 AM–9:00 AM Monday, 11:30 AM–1:00 PM
Marriott Marquis-Solana (South Tower - First Level) Marriott Marquis-Solana (South Tower - First Level)
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Theology Without Walls Group King’s College London Reception
Theme: Does the Heavenly City Have Gates? Eschatology Without Monday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Walls Marriott Marquis-Pacific 16 (First Level)
Monday, 1:00 PM–3:00 PM Once again we are delighted to invite friends and guests, prospective
Marriott Marquis-Rancho Sante Fe 3 (North Tower - Lobby Level) students and alumni to the King’s College London reception at the
Jerry L. Martin, University of Colorado, Presiding AAR/SBL Annual Meetings, this time in San Diego. Everyone
is warmly encouraged to join us to hear about developments in
While John Hick is usually identified with a Kantian conviction that the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, including
takes religions to be phenomenal representations of an unknowable opportunities for study at Master’s and doctoral level — and to enjoy
Reality, his book, Death and Eternal Life, may provide a better model a get-together to a background of some good London music. For
for TWW. There he present relevant evidence about whether we further information about the Department, see kcl.ac.uk/trs
survive death and, if so, what sort of self survives. He draws insights
and arguments, not only from the religions, but also from the sciences,
philosophy, parapsychology, and the humanist perspective. Panelists
are asked to address the question: What speculations on death and
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the afterlife do you find most persuasive? What kinds of evidence and Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice
argument do you find most compelling?
Theme: The Dignity to Decide Award: 45th Anniversary of RCRC
Jan-Olav Henriksen, MF Norwegian School of Theology,
Religion and Society Monday, 7:00 PM–8:30 PM
Experiential Evidence for an Eschatology without Walls? Hick’s Marriott Marquis-Leucadia (South Tower - First Level)
Position from a Pragmatist Perspective
Michael T. McLaughlin, Old Dominion University
Hick’s Eschatology of Mutuality in Higher Worlds Meets Affect in M25-503
Spinoza
Auburn Theological Seminary/Walter Wink Scholar
Jeffery D. Long, Elizabethtown College Activist Award Reception
Reflections on Rebirth: Science, Christianity, and Vedanta in
Conversation Monday, 7:30 PM–9:00 PM
Thomas Oord, Northwest Nazarene University Marriott Marquis-Pacific 15 (First Level)
Relentless Love of the Afterlife Please join Auburn President Katharine Rhodes Henderson as we
celebrate the work of troubling the waters and healing the world. At
Christopher Denny, St. John’s University
its reception, Auburn is honored to award the fifth annual Walter
Aesthetic Persuasion and Eschatology: What Literature Can Teach Us
Wink Scholar-Activist Award. Previous awardees include Traci
about the Next World
West, Simran Jeet Singh, Najeeba Syeed, and Rebecca Todd Peters.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 25
The award will be given during the reception, with a brief talk by the
awardee to follow. Come enjoy the food, drinks, warm hospitality and
M25-200 network with fellow scholar-activist friends old and new.
Society for Pentecostal Studies
Theme: The Spirit and the New Testament
Marriott Marquis-Laguna (South Tower - First Level)
Melissa Archer, Southeastern University, Presiding
Jon K. Newton, Alphacrucis College (Australia)
Determinism and Time in the Apocalypse
Hannah R. K. Mather, London School of Theology
How Does the Spirit Communicate to Us through Scripture? A
Renewal Perspective
Stetson Glass, Southeastern University
“We Shall Wear a Robe and Crown”: A Pentecostal Engagement with
Apocalyptic Apparel of the Saints

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PROGRAM SESSIONS

P22-103 Friday, 9:00 AM–3:00 PM

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A22-114 Joseph Bulbulia, University of Aukland

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questions to Anita Houck, Secretary, at ahouck@saintmarys.edu.

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Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM Friday, 4:00 PM–6:00 PM

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Meredith Minister, Shenandoah University Holiness

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Anthropocene Authority and Performance in Bali: Pedandas vs the New Age

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King and the Paradigm of Black Partisan Disentanglement

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Jonas Kurlberg, Durham University Kevin L. Hughes, Villanova University

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E AAR Award Winners N Exploratory Sessions S Full Papers Available on AAR

C Business Meeting U Focus on Chaplainey W Presidential Theme: Scholarly

F Especially for Students P Focus on Employment K Professional Development D Wildcard Sessions

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A23-204 K This panel will be a discussion of a variety of issues tied to the

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Claire Kravette, California State University, Northridge, Presiding

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Schisms in Contemporary China

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